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CHARTERS 
ACTS      AND      OFFICIAL     DOCUMENTS 


TOGETHER   WITH   THE 


LEASE  AND  RE-LEASE  BY  TRINITY  CHURCH 

OF   A    PORTION    OF   THE 

KING'S   FARM 


COMPILED   BY 

JOHN      B.     PINE 

Clerk  of  the  Trustees 


PRINTED   FOR  THE  COLLEGE 
JUNE,  1895 


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An  act  for  raising  the  sum  of  £21^0,  etc,  towards  the  founding  of  a  College 

(L.  1746,  C.  840) 3 

An  act  for  raising  the  sum  of  ;^i8oo,  etc.,  towards  the  founding  of  a  College 

(L.  1748,  C.  860) ,,     4 

An  act  to  revive  Laws  1748,  Chapter  860  (L.  1748,  C.  870) 4 

An  act  for  vesting  in  Trustees  the  sum  of  ;^3443  i8sh.,  etc.,  for  erecting  a 

College  (L,  1751,  C.  909) 5 

An  act  further  to  continue  the  duty  of  Excise,  etc.  (L,  1753,  C.  12) 5 

An  act  for  raising  the  sum  of  ;^ii25,  etc.,  towards  founding  a  College  (L. 

1753,  C.  17) 6 

Petition  for  a  Charter,  May  20,  1754 7 

Warrant  to  prepare  a  Charter,  June  4,  1754 9 

Charter  of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  Oct. 

31,  1754 10 

Petition  for  additional  Charter,  May  13,  1755 25 

Additional  Charter  of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 

York,   May  30,  1755 26 

An  act  for  appropriating  moneys  raised  by  divers  lotteries,  etc.  (L.  1756, 

C.  116) 29 

An  act  for  granting  certain  privileges  to  the  College  heretofore  called  Kings 

College,  etc.  (Charter  of  1784),  and  erecting  an  University  within  this 

State  (L.  1784,  C.  51) 29 

An  act  to  amend  the  Charter  of  1784  (L.  1785,  C.  15) 35 

An  act  to  institute  an  University  within  this  State,  etc.  (Charter  of  1787) 

(L.  1787,  C.  82) 36 

An  act  to  encourage  literature,  etc.  (L.  1792,  C.  69) 40 

An  act  for  the  payment  of  certain  officers  of  the  Government,  etc.  (L.  1796, 

C.  57) 41 

An  act  respecting  Union  College,  etc.  (L.  1797,  C.  65) 41 

An  act  to  amend  the  Laws  of  1792,  Chap.  69  (L.  1802,  C.  105) 41 

An  act  relative  to  Columbia  College,  etc.  (Charter  of  18 10)  (L.  18 10,  C.  85).   42 

An  act  to  render  the  Provoost  eligible  as  a  Trustee  (L.  1812,  C.  6) 46 

Petition  to  the  Legislature,  March  7,  1814 47 

An  act  instituting  a  lottery  for  the  promotion  of  Literature,  etc.  (Grant  of 

Hosack  Botanical  Garden)  (L.  1814,   C.  120) 49 

An  act  relative  to  Columbia  College,  etc.,  amending  L.  18 14,  C.   120  (L. 

1819,  C.  19) 50 

An  act  to  amend  the  Charter  of  181Q  (L.  1852,  C.  310) 52 

An  act  to  authorize  the  Trustees  to  take  and  hold  certain  real  estate  (L. 

1857,  C.  132) 52 


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An  act  to  authorize  the  Trustees  to  take  and  hold  certain  real  estate  (L. 

i860,  C.  51) 53 

An  act  relative  to  the  Law  School  (L.  i860,  C.  202) 53 

An  act  in  relation  to  Columbia  College,  authorizing  the  Trustees  to  take  and 

hold  certain  real  estate  (L.  1872,  C.  96) 54 

An  act  in  relation  to  Columbia  College,  authorizing  the  Trustees  to  take  and 

hold  certain  real  estate  (L.  1884,  C.  65) 55 

An  act  to  provide  for  the  establishment  of  a  Botanic  Garden  (L.    1891,   C. 

285) 56 

An  act  in  relation  to  certain  avenues  and  streets,  etc.  (L.  1892,  C.  230). ...  60 
An  act  to  permit  the  union  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  with 

Columbia  College  (L.  1891,  C.  loi) 62 

An  act  to  ratify  the  union  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  with 

Columbia  College  (L.  1894,  C.  97) 63 

Lease  by  Trinity  Church  of  a  portion  of  the  Kings  Farm,  May  12,  1755.  . .  64 
Release  by  Trinity  Church  of  a  portion  of  the  Kings  Farm,  May  13,  1755. . .   66 

Prospectus  of  the  College,  May  31,  1754 69 

Letters  Patent  of  the  Township  of  Kingsland,  March  14,  1770 72 

Lease  of  Land  in  the  Township  of  Norbury,  April  6,  1774 82 

Release  of  Land  in  the  Township  of  Norbury,  April  7,  1774 84 

Charter  of  the  Association  of  the  Alumni  of  Columbia  College  (L.  1874,  C. 

520) 88 

Certificate  of  incorporation  of  the  Alumni  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and 

Surgeons,  May  5,   1873 91 

Certificate  of  incorporation  of  the  Alumni  of  the  School  of  Mines,  May  20, 

1886 93 


(E[)arter0,  C^cts  ani  Official  JDocumcnts. 


ACTS  RELATING  TO  THE  COLLEGE. 

An  Act  for  Raising  the  Sum  of  Two  Thousand  Two  Hun- 
dred AND  Fifty  Pounds  by  a  Publick  Lottery  for  this 
Colony  for  the  Advancement  of  Learning  and  towards  the 
Founding  of  a  College  within  the  same. 

Passed  December  6,  1746. 

Laws  of  1746,  Chap.  840. 

Bmteg  tljat  "  Inasmuch  as  it  will  greatly  tend  to  the  welfare 
and  reputation  of  the  colony  that  a  proper  and  ample  founda- 
tion be  laid  for  the  regular  education  of  youth,  and  as  so  good 
and  laudable  a  design  must  readily  excite  the  inhabitants  of  this 
colony  to  become  adventurers  in  a  lottery  of  which  the  profits 
shall  be  employed  for  the  founding  of  a  colledge  for  that  pur- 
pose;" and  provides  for  erecting  a  lottery,  appointing  Peter 
Vallete  and  Peter  Van  Brugh  Livingston  as  managers.  The  Act 
specifies  in  detail  the  manner  in  which  the  lottery  shall  be  man- 
aged and  impowers  the  Mayor,  Recorder,  Aldermen  and  Com- 
monalty of  the  City  of  New  York  to  inspect  the  same,  and  after 
authorizing  the  managers  to  retain  fifteen  per  cent,  for  their  fees 
and  expenses,  directs  that  the  balance  of  the  moneys  arising 
from  the  lottery  be  paid  "into  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer,  to 
be  and  remain  in  the  Treasury,  to  and  for  the  purpose  of  found- 
ing a  colledge,  for  the  education  of  youth,  and  to  and  for  no 
other  purpose  whatsoever,  in  such  manner  as  shall  be  here- 
after directed  by  act  or  acts  of  the  Governor,  Council  and 
General  Assembly."  The  act  further  provides  **  that  the  pur- 
pose of  founding  the  said  colledge  may  not  be  obstructed  by 


4  LOTTERY   LAWS. 

any  other  application  of  the  moneys  to  arise  from  the  profits 
of  the  said  lottery,  be  it  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid, 
that  each  and  every  representative  in  General  Assembly  for  the 
time  being,  who  shall  hereafter  in  General  Assembly,  move  or 
consent  to  the  applying  or  appropriating  the  said  moneys  to  any 
other  purpose  whatever,  than  the  founding  the  colledge  afore- 
said, shall  be  and  hereby  is  declared  and  made  forever  incapable 
of  sitting  and  voting  in  this  or  any  future  General  Assembly, 
and  new  writs  shall  issue  accordingly." 


An  Act  for  Raising  the  Sum  of  One  thousand  Eight  Hun- 
dred Pounds  by  a  Publick  Lottery  for  a  further  Provision 

TOWARDS  founding  A  COLLEGE  FOR  THE  ADVANCEMENT  OF  LEARN- 
ING within  this  Colony.  Passed  April  8,  1748. 

Laws  of  1748,  Chap.  860. 

Cir0ntain0  recitals  and  provisions  similar  to  the  foregoing  act 
passed  December  6,  1746,  and  directs  that  the  balance  of  the 
moneys  arising  from  the  lottery,  after  deducting  fifteen  per 
cent,  for  expenses,  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer  **to  and  for  the 
purpose  of  founding  a  college  for  the  education  of  youths  and 
to  and  for  no  other  purpose  whatever." 


An  Act  to  Revive  an  Act  entituled  An  Act  for  raising  the 
Sum  of  Eighteen  hundred  Pounds  by  a  Publick  Lottery  for 
A  further  Provision  towards  founding  a  College  for  the 
Advancement  of  Learning  within  this  Colony,  with  an 
Addition  thereto.  Passed  October  28,  1748. 

Laws  of  1748,  Chap.  870. 

SElje  time  for  raising  the  sum  specified  in  the  foregoing  act, 
passed  April  9,  1748,  having  expired  in  September,  for  want  of 
a  sufficient  number  of  contributions,  the  said  act  was  revived, 
and  the  time  for  the  drawing  of  the  lottery  as  therein  provided 
was  extended  to  November  14. 


LOTTERY  LAWS.  5 

An  Act  for  Vesting  in  Trustees  the  sum  of  Three  Thou- 
sand Four  Hundred  and  Forty-three  Pounds,  Eighteen 
Shillings,  raised  by  way  of  a  Lottery  for  Erecting  a  Col- 
lege within  this  Colony.  Passed  November  25,  1751. 

Laws  of  1751,  Chap.  909. 

HeciUs  tljat  "  Whereas  the  sum  of  three  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  forty-three  pounds,  eighteen  shillings,  has  been  raised 
within  this  colony,  by  way  of  lottery,  for  erecting  a  College  for 
the  education  of  youths  within  the  same ;  which  sum  being  not 
conceived  sufficient,  without  further  addition,  to  answer  the 
said  end  of  erecting,  compleating  &  establishing  a  college  for 
the  advancement  of  useful  learning,  it  is  conceived  necessary 
that  Trustees  be  appointed,  as  well  for  the  setting  at  interest 
the  said  sum  of  three  thousand  four  hundred  and  forty-three 
pounds,  eighteen  shillings,  already  raised  for  the  said  pur- 
pose, as  for  receiving  the  contributions  and  donations  of  such 
persons  as  may  be  charitably  disposed  to  be  benefactors  and 
encouragers  of  so  laudable  an  undertaking,"  and  appoints 
as  Trustees  **the  eldest  Councellor  residing  in  this  Colony, 
the  Speaker  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  the  Judges  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  the 
Treasurer  of  this  Colony  for  the  time  being,  together  with 
James  Livingston,  Esq.,  Mr.  Benjamin  NicoU  and  Mr. 
William  Livingston,"  with  power  to  manage  the  said  sum  and 
additional  contributions,  and  to  receive  proposals  from  any  of 
the  cities  or  counties  within  this  colony,  desirous  of  having  the 
said  college  erected  therein. 


An  Act  further  to  continue  the  Duty  of  Excise,  and  the 
Currency  of  the  Bills  of  Credit  emitted  thereon,  for  the 
purposes  in  the  former  Act,  and  herein  mentioned. 

Passed  July  4,  1753. 

Laws  of  1753,  Chap.  12. 

Wc^t  ^ct  provides  for  various  duties  and  authorizes  the  payment 
by  the  Treasurer  of  the  Colony  to  the  Trustees  mentioned  and 


6  LOTTERY  LAWS. 

appointed  in  and  by  the  foregoing  Act  passed  November  25, 
1 75 1,  the  annual  sum  of  five  hundred  pounds,  for  the  term  of 
seven  years,  for  the  payment  of  salaries  and  for  such  other 
''uses  and  purposes  concerning  the  establishment  of  the  said 
Seminary  "  as  the  Trustees  think  needful. 


An  Act  for  Raising  the  Sum  of  One  Thousand  one  Hun- 
dred AND  Twenty-five  Pounds,  by  a  Publick  Lottery  for 
THIS  Colony  for  a  further  provision  towards  founding  a 
College  within  the  same.  Passed  December  12,  1753. 

Laws  of  1753,  Chap.  17. 

(fTontains  tecitala  and  provisions  similar  to  those  contained  in 
the  Acts  passed  December  6,  1746,  and  April  9,  1748,  and  appoints 
as  managers,  Abraham  Van  Wyck  and  Abraham  Leynsen,  Es- 
quires. The  Act  also  provides  that  the  proceeds  of  the  lottery,  after 
the  payment  of  expenses,  shall  be  paid  to  the  Trustees  appointed 
in  and  by  the  Act  passed  November  25,  1751,  **  and  by  them 
put  out  at  Interest  according  to  the  directions  of  the  said  Act 
untill  the  same  shall  be  employed  by  some  Future  Act  for  and 
towards  founding  a  College  for  the  advancement  of  learning 
within  this  Colony." 


PETITION  FOR  A  CHARTER. 

To  THE  Honourable  James  DeLancey  Esqr.  Lieutenant 
Governor  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Province 
OF  New  York,  and  Territories-thereon  depending  in 
America.     In  Council 


JJetition  of  the  Trustees  mentioned  and  appointed  in 
by  An  Act,  passed  in  the  twenty  fifth  year  of  his  present 
Majesty's  Reign,  Entituled  An  Act  for  vesting  in  Trustees  the 
Sum  of  Three  Thousand  four  hundred  and  forty-three  pounds 
eighteen  shillings,  raised  by  way  of  Lottery  for  erecting  a  Col- 
ledge  within  this  Colony.  Humbly  Sheweth. 

That  divers  Sums  of  money  having  been  raised  by  several 
Acts  of  the  Governor,  Council,  and  General  Assembly  of  this 
of  New  York,  for  the  establishing  a  Colledge  in  the  said  province 
Your  petitioners  by  Acts  afterwards  made,  were  appointed  Trus- 
tees for  putting  the  said  Moneys  at  Interest,  and  to  receive  pro- 
posals, accept  Donations,  and  procure  Masters  and  Tutors,  in 
order  to  make  a  Beginning  of  the  said  Seminary  according  to 
the  trust  reposed  in  them. 

^Otir  petitioners  further  shew  unto  your  Honour,  That  in  pur- 
suance of  the  said  Trust,  they  have  endeavoured  to  get  a  proper 
Master  and  Tutor  for  the  said  intended  Seminary,  But  find  that 
as  your  Petitioners,  are  enabled  to  give  Salarys  for  seven  years 
only,  that  they  are  under  great  difficulty  to  procure  a  fit  and 
proper  person  to  undertake  the  office  of  master  or  head  of  the 
said  Seminary:  Your  petitioners  further  shew  unto  your  Hon- 
our, that  the  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York 
in  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  Law  established, 
being  willing  to  encourage  the  said  Good  design  of  establishing 
a  Seminary  or  College  for  the  education  of  Youth,  in  the  Liberal 
Arts  or  Sciences,  have  offered  unto  your  Petitioners,  a  very  val- 
uable parcel  of  Ground  on  the  west  side  of  the  Broadway,  in 
the  west  ward  of  the  City  of  New  York,  for  the  use  of  the  said 
intended  Seminary  or  College,  and  are  ready  and  desirous  to 
convey  the  said  Lands  for  the  said  use,  on  Condition  that  the 

7 


8  PETITION  FOR  A   CHARTER. 

head  or  Master  of  the  said  Seminary  or  Colledge,  be  a  Member 
of  and  in  Communion  with  the  Church  of  England  as  by  Law 
Established,  and  that  the  Liturgy  of  the  said  Church  or  a  Col- 
lection of  prayers  out  of  the  said  Liturgy,  be  the  constant  morn- 
ing and  evening  service,  used  in  the  said  College  forever,  which 
said  parcel  of  Land  so  offered  by  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabit- 
ants, your  Petitioners  considering  as  the  most  proper  place  for 
erecting  of  the  said  Seminary  or  College  upon,  and  that  their 
obtaining  his  Majesty's  Charter  to  them  or  such  others  as  your 
Honour  shall  think  proper  for  the  said  Trust,  will  the  better 
enable  your  petitioners  in  conjunction  with  those  your  Honour 
shall  incorporate  by  his  Majesty's  Charter,  to  provide  a  proper 
Master,  or  head  of  the  said  Seminary,  and  Tutors  for  the  Edu- 
cation of  Youth,  and  thereby  greatly  tend  to  promote  and  fur- 
ther the  intent  and  design  of  establishing  a  Seminary  or  College 
for  the  Education  of  Youth  among  us. 

^onr  JPetitioners  therefore  humbly  pray,  that  in  order  to  pro- 
mote so  good  a  design,  and  the  more  effectual  obtaining  a  grant 
of  the  said  parcel  of  Land  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  said 
Seminary  or  College,  that  your  Honour  would  be  pleased  to 
grant  to  your  Petitioners,  or  to  such  other  persons  as  your  Hon- 
our shall  think  proper,  his  Majesty's  Charter  of  Incorporation, 
with  such  privileges  as  to  your  Honour  shall  seem  meet,  the 
better  to  enable  them  to  prosecute  the  said  design  of  Establish- 
ing a  Seminary  or  College  for  the  Instruction  of  Youth. 

And  your  Petitioners  shall  ever  pray. 
New  York,  May  20th,  1754.  Wm.  Livingston 

by  order  of  the  Trustees. 


WARRANT  TO  PREPARE  A  CHARTER. 

By  the  Hon.  James  DeLancey  Esq.,  his  Majesties  Lieut. 
Gov.  &  Com.  in  Chief  in  &  over  the  province  of  New  York 
and  the  territories  depending  thereon  in  America 

To  William  Kempe  Esq  his  Majesties  Attorney  General  for  the 
province  of  New  York 

toljereas  tl)e  ^Trustees  mentioned  &  appointed  in  and  by  an 
act  passed  in  the  twenty-fifth  of  his  Majesties  Reign  for  vesting 
in  the  said  Trustees  Sum  ;^3443  :i8  raised  by  way  of  a  lottery  for 
erecting  a  College  within  this  Colony  hath  by  their  humble 
Petition  presented  unto  me  and  had  in  Council  on  the  28th  day 
of  May  last  humby  prayed  I  would  grant  to  them  the  petitioners 
or  to  such  persons  as  should  be  thought  proper  his  Majesties 
Charter  of  Incorporation  with  such  privileges  as  should  be 
thought  meet  Which  Petition  was  then  referred  to  a  Committee 
of  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Council  or  any  five  of  them.  The 
Chairman  whereof  afterwards  reported  that  the  Committee 
was  humbly  of  the  Opinion  that  I  should  grant  to  proper  persons 
his  Majesties  Letters  Patent  for  incorporating  the  said  College 
according  to  the  purport  and  prayer  of  the  petition  and  direct 
the  attorney  General  to  prepare  a  draft  of  the  said  Letters 
Patent  or  Charter  Which  report  was  agreed  to  and  approved  of  as 
by  the  said  petition  and  the  proceedings  in  council  thereupon 
copies  of  which  are  hereunto  annexed  may  more  fully  and  at 
large  appear. 

I  have  theretofore  thought  it  Good  with  the  advice  of  his  Majes- 
ties Council  to  direct  &  you  are  hereby  directed  &  required  to 
prepare  a  draft  of  the  said  Letters  Patent  or  Charter  according 
to  the  purport  and  prayer  of  the  said  petition  and  to  lay  the 
same  before  me  in  Council  And  for  so  doing  this  shall  be  your 
sufft  warrant. 

(^ben  tmirer  mjj  ^anb  and  Seal  of  Arms  at  Fort  George  in 
the  City  of  New  York  this  fourth  day  of  June  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  &  fifty-four. 


THE  CHARTER  OF  ^1)0  (BovctttotB   of  tl)e  College  of  tl)e 
JJrotJince  of  Nero  gork  in  t\)c  Cits  of  Neto  @ork  in  ^^m^nca. 

(George  tl)e  Seconlr,  by  the  grace  of  God,  of  Great  Britain, 
France,  and  Ireland,  King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c.  To  all 
whom  these  presents  shall  come,  Greeting: 

toljereas,  by  several  acts  of  the  Governour,  Council,  and  Gen- 
eral assembly  of  our  Province  of  New  York,  divers  sums  of 
money  have  been  Raised  by  Publick  Lotteries,  and  appropriated 
for  the  founding,  erecting,  and  establishing  a  College  in  our 
said  Government,  for  the  Education  and  Instruction  of  Youth 
in  the  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences : 

%X^  tol)erea0,  the  Rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New- 
York  in  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  Law 
Established,  for  the  encouraging  and  promoting  the  same  good 
design,  have  sett  apart  a  parcel  of  ground  for  that  purpose,  of 
upwards  of  Three  Thousand  Pounds  value,  belonging  to  the 
said  Corporation,  on  the  west  side  of  the  broadway,  in  the  west 
ward  of  our  City  of  New  York,  fronting  easterly  to  Church 
street,  between  Barclay  street  and  Murray  street,  four  hundred 
and  forty  foot;  And  from  thence  runing  westerly,  between  and 
along  the  said  Barclay  street  and  Murray  street,  to  the  North 
River;  And  also^  a  street,  from  the  middle  of  the  said  Land, 
Easterly  to  the  Broadway,  of  ninety  Foot,  to  be  called  Robin- 
son street.  And  have  declared  that  they  are  ready  and  desirous 
to  Convey  the  said  Land  in  Fee,  to  and  for  the  use  of  a  College, 
intended  and  proposed  to  be  Erected  and  Established  in  our 
said  Province,  upon  the  terms  in  their  said  declaration  men- 
tioned : 

^nb  tDi)erea0  our  Loving  Subjects,  the  Trustees,  appointed  in 
and  by  an  act  of  the  Governor,  Council,  and  General  Assembly 
of  our  said  Province  of  New  York,  Intitled  an  Act  for  Vesting 
in  Trustees  the  sum  of  three  Thousand  four  Hundred  and  forty 
three  Pounds  eighteen  shillings,  by  way  of  Lottery,  for  erecting 
a  College  within  this  Colony,  esteeming  the  said  Lands  offered 
and  sett  apart  by  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of 

10 


ORIGINAL    CHARTER.  11 

New  York,  in  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England,  as  by  Law 
Established,  the  most  convenient  place  for  the  Building,  Erect- 
ing, and  Establishing,  a  College,  in  our  said  Province,  have,  by 
their  humble  petition,  presented  to  our  trusty  and  well  Beloved 
James  De  Lancey^  Esq.,  our  Lieutenant  Governor  and  Com- 
mander in  Chief  of  our  said  Province  of  New  York,  In  Council, 
prayed  our  Letters  patent  of  Incorporation  for  the  Better  Estab- 
lishing, Erecting,  and  Building  a  College,  on  the  said  Lands, 
and  the  more  Effectually  Governing,  Carrying  on,  and  Promot- 
ing the  same,  and  Instructing  of  Youth  in  the  Liberal  Arts  and 
Sciences: 

toljerefore  tOee,  being  willing  to  Grant  the  Reasonable  re- 
quest and  desire  of  our  said  Loving  Subjects,  and  to  Encourage 
the  said  good  design  of  promoting  a  Liberal  Education  among 
them,  and  to  make  the  same  as  Beneficial  as  may  be,  not  only 
to  the  Inhabitants  of  our  said  Province  of  New  York,  But  to 
all  our  Colonies  and  Territories  in  America. 

HnotD  ^e,  that  Wee,  considering  the  premisses,  do  of  our 
especial  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge,  and  meer  motion,  by  these 
presents,  will,  Grant,  Constitute,  and  ordain,  that  when  and 
as  soon  as  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New 
York  in  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  Law 
established,  shall  legally  convey  and  assure  the  said  herein 
before  mentioned  Lands  to  the  Corporation,  or  body  politick, 
Erected  and  made  by  these  our  Letters  patent,  That  there  be 
erected  and  made  on  the  said  Lands,  a  College,  and  other 
Buildings  and  Improvements,  for  the  use  and  conveniency  of 
the  same,  which  shall  be  called  and  Known  by  the  name  of 
Kings  College,  for  the  Instruction  and  Education  of  Youth  in  the 
Learned  Languages,  and  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences;  And  that  in 
Consideration  of  such  Grant,  to  be  made  by  the  Rector  and 
Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York,  in  Communion  of  the 
Church  of  England,  as  by  Law  Established,  the  President  of 
the  said  College,  for  the  time  being,  shall  for  ever  hereafter  be 
a  member  of,  and  in  Communion  with  the  Church  of  England, 
as  by  Law  established;  And  that  the  Governors  of  the  said 
College,  and  their  successors,  for  ever,  shall  be  one  body  Cor- 
porate and  politick,  in  deed,  fact,  and  name,  and  shall  be  called, 
named,  and  distinguished,  by  the  name  of  the  Governors  of  the 


13  ORIGINAL  CHARTER. 

College  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  in  America,  and  them  and  their  successors,  by  the  name 
of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York, 
in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  America,  one  Body  Corporate  and 
politick,  in  deed,  fact,  and  name,  really  and  fully,  we  do  for  us, 
our  heirs  and  Successors,  Erect,  Ordain,  make,  Constitute,  de- 
clare, and  Create  by  these  presents,  and  that  by  that  name,  they 
shall  and  may  have  perpetual  succession: 

^x(^  tXJC  bo  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  successors,  for  the  Continu- 
ance and  Better  Establishment  of  the  said  College,  Will,  Give, 
Grant,  Ordain,  Constitute,  and  appoint,  that  in  the  said  Col- 
lege, to  be  Erected  and  Built  upon  the  Lands  aforesaid,  there 
shall  from  henceforth  forever  be  a  Body  Corporate  and  poli- 
tick. Consisting  of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  America;  And 
for  the  more  full  and  perfect  Erection  of  the  said  Corporation 
and  Body  politick,  consisting  of  the  Governors  of  the  College 
of  the  Province  of  New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York  in 
America,  we  do  will,  Grant,  ordain,  Constitute,  assign,  Limitt, 
and  appoint,  by  these  presents,  the  most  Reverend  Father  in 
God,  our  Trusty,  and  well  beloved  Thomas,  Lord  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  and  the  most  Reverend  the  Lord  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury  for  the  time  being;  The  Right  Honorable  Dunk, 
Earl  of  Halifax,  first  Lord  Commissioner  for  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions, and  the  first  Lord  Commissioner  for  Trade  and  planta- 
tions for  the  time  being;  Our  now  Lieutenant  Governor  and 
Commander  in  chief  of  our  said  Province  of  New  York,  and 
the  Governor  or  Commander  in  chief  of  our  said  Province  for 
the  time  being;  the  eldest  Councilor  of  our  said  Province  now 
and  for  the  time  being;  the  Judges  of  our  Supreme  Court  of 
Judicature  of  our  said  Province  now  and  for  the  time  being; 
the  Secretary  of  our  said  Province  now  and  for  the  time  being; 
the  Attorney  General  of  our  said  Province  now  and  for  the 
time  being;  the  Speaker  of  the  General  Assembly  of  our  said 
Province  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Treasurer  of  our  said 
Province  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Mayor  of  our  City 
of  New  York  in  our  said  Province  now  and  for  the  time  being; 
the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church  in  our  said  City  of  New  York 
now  and   for   the  time  being;  the  Senior  Minister  of  the  Re- 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER.  13 

formed  Protestant  Dutch  Church  in  our  said  City  now  and  for 
the  time  being;  the  Minister  of  the  ancient  Lutheran  Church  in 
our  said  City  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Minister  of  the 
French  Church  in  our  said  City  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the 
Minister  of  the  Presbeterian  Congregation  in  our  said  City  for 
the  time  being;  the  President  of  the  said  College,  appointed  by 
these  Presents,  and  the  President  of  the  said  College  for  the 
time  being,  to  be  chosen  as  herein  after  is  directed,  and  twenty 
four  other  Persons,  Who  shall  be  called  and  named,  and  are 
hereby  called  and  named,  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the 
Province  of  New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  America; 
^nb  fur  tiiat  purpose,  We  have  elected,  nominated,  ordained, 
constituted,  limited,  and  appointed,  and  by  these  Presents  do, 
for  us,  our  Heirs,  and  Successors,  elect,  nominate,  ordain,  con- 
stitute, limit,  and  appoint,  the  said  most  Reverend  Father  in 
God,  Thomas,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  the  Lord 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  for  the  time  being;  The  Right  Hon- 
ourable Dunk,  Earl  of  Halifax,  first  Lord  Commissioner  for 
Trade  and  Plantations,  and  the  first  Lord  Commissioner  for 
Trade  and  Plantations  for  the  time  being;  our  now  Lieutenant 
Governor  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  our  Province  of  New 
York,  and  the  Governor  or  Commander  in  chief  of  our  said 
Province  for  the  time  being;  the  eldest  Councilor  of  our  said 
Province  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Judges  of  our  Supreme 
Court  of  Judicature  of  our  said  Province  now  and  for  the  time 
being;  the  Secretary  of  our  said  Province  now  and  for  the  time 
being;  the  Attorney  General  of  our  said  Province  now  and  for 
the  time  being;  the  Speaker  of  the  General  Assembly  of  our 
said  Province  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Treasurer  of  our 
said  Province  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Mayor  of  our 
said  City  of  New  York  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Rector 
of  Trinity  Church  in  our  said  City  now  and  for  the  time  being; 
the  Senior  Minister  of  the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church 
in  our  said  City  now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  Minister  of 
the  ancient  Lutheran  Church  in  our  said  City  now  and  for  the 
time  being ;  the  minister  of  the  French  Church  in  our  said  City 
now  and  for  the  time  being;  the  minister  of  the  Presbeterian 
Congregation  in  our  said  City  for  the  time  being;  the  President 
of  the  said  College,  appointed  by  these  Presents,  and  the  Pres- 


14  ORIGINAL  CHARTER. 

ident  of  the  said  College  for  the  time  being;  and  Archibald 
Kennedy,  Joseph  Murray,  Josiah  Martin,  Paul  Richard,  Henry 
Cruger,  William  Walton,  John  Watts,  Henry  Beekman,  Philip 
Ver  Planck,  Frederick  Philipse,  Joseph  Robinson,  John  Cruger, 
Oliver  De  Lancey,  James  Livingston,  Esquires,  Benjamin 
Nicoll,  William  Livingston,  Joseph  Read,  Nathaniel  Marston, 
Joseph  Haynes,  John  Livingston,  Abraham  Lodge,  David 
Clarkson,  Leonard  Lispenard,  and  James  De  Lancey  the 
Younger,  Gentlemen,  to  be  the  present  Governors  of  the  said 
College;  and  we  do  by  these  Presents  ordain  and  appoint  our 
well  beloved  Samuel  Johnson,  Doctor  of  Divinity,  to  be  the 
first  and  present  President  of  the  said  College,  for  and  during 
his  Good  Behaviour;  and  do  will  that  he  and  the  President  for 
the  time  being  after  him,  who  shall  also  hold  his  office  during 
Good  behaviour,  shall  have  the  Immediate  care  of  the  Educa- 
tion and  Government  of  the  students  that  shall  be  sent  to  and 
admitted  into  the  said  College  for  Instruction  and  Education, 
according  to  such  Rules  and  orders  as  shall  be  made  by  the 
Governors  of  the  said  College ;  And  they  are  by  these  presents 
made  and  constituted  a  Body  Corporate  and  politick,  by  the 
said  name  of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  province  of 
New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  America ;  and  they  and 
their  successors,  by  the  said  name  of  the  Governors  of  the  Col- 
lege of  the  province  of  New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in 
America,  be,  and  for  ever  hereafter  shall  be,  a  Body  politick  and 
Corporate,  in  deed,  fact,  and  name,  and  shall  be  Capable  and 
able  in  Law  to  sue  and  be  sued.  Implead  and  be  Impleaded, 
answer  and  be  Answered  unto.  Defend  and  be  Defended,  In  all 
Courts  and  places,  before  Us,  our  Heirs  and  Successors,  and  be- 
fore all  and  any  the  Judges,  Justices,  Officers,  and  Ministers  of 
Us,  our  Heirs  and  Successors,  in  any  Court  or  Courts,  place 
and  places  Whatsoever,  in  all  and  all  manner  of  actions,  suits. 
Complaints,  Pleas,  causes,  matters,  and  demands  whatsoever, 
and  of  what  kind  or  nature  soever,  in  as  full,  ample  manner  and 
form  as  any  of  our  other  Liege  Subjects  of  our  said  Province  of 
New  York  can  or  may  sue  and  be  sued.  Implead  and  be  Im- 
pleaded, defend  and  be  Defended,  by  any  Lawfull  ways  and 
means  whatsoever. 

^nl>,  ttleo,  that  they  and  their  successors,  by  the  said  name  of 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER.  16 

the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  in  America,  be,  and  for  ever  hereafter, 
shall  be  a  Body  Corporate,  Capable  and  able  in  Law  to  purchase, 
take,  hold,  receive,  Enjoy,  and  have  any  messuages,  houses. 
Lands,  Tenements,  and  Hereditaments,  and  real  Estate  what- 
soever, in  Fee  simple,  or  for  Term  of  Life,  or  Lives,  or  Years, 
or  in  any  other  manner  howsoever,  for  the  use  of  the  said  Col- 
lege; Provided  ahvays^  the  clear  yearly  value  thereof  do  not 
exceed  the  sum  of  Two  Thousand  pounds  Stirling;  and  also 
Goods,  Chattells,  Books,  moneys,  annuities,  and  all  other  things 
of  what  nature  and  kind  soever.  And^  also,  that  they  and  their 
Successors,  by  the  same  name  of  the  Governours  of  the  Col- 
lege of  the  Province  of  New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in 
America,  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  said  College,  shall  and  may 
have  full  power  and  authority  to  Erect  and  build  any  house  or 
houses,  or  other  Buildings,  as  they  shall  think  necessary  or  con- 
venient; and  also  to  Give,  Grant,  Bargain,  sell,  demise,  assign, 
or  otherwise  dispose  of  all  or  any  messuages,  Lands,  Tenements, 
Rents,  and  other  Hereditaments,  and  real  Estate,  and  all  Goods, 
Chattells,  money,  and  other  things  whatsover,  as  to  them  shall 
seem  fitt,  either  in  the  payment  of  the  Salary  or  Salaries  of  the 
President,  Fellows,  and  Professors  of  the  said  College,  or  any 
other  officers  or  ministers  of  the  same,  at  their  will  and  pleasure; 
excepting  always,  and  it  is,  Nevertheless,  our  True  Intent  and 
meaning  that  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College  for  the  time 
being,  and  their  Successors,  or  any  of  them,  shall  not  do  or 
suffer  to  be  done,  at  any  time  hereafter,  any  act  or  thing 
whereby  or  by  means  whereof  the  Lands  set  apart  and  offered 
to  be  Conveyed  by  the  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  In  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  Law 
Established,  for  the  use  of  the  College,  or  any  part  thereof, 
shall  be  Vested,  Conveyed,  or  Transferred,  to  any  other  person, 
contrary  to  the  true  meaning  hereof,  other  than  by  such  Leases 
as  are  hereafter  mentioned :  our  will  and  pleasure  is,  therefore, 
and  we  do  for  us  our  heirs  and  Successors  will  and  ordain, 
that  no  Grant  or  Lease  of  the  said  Land,  or  any  part  thereof, 
shall  be  made  by  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College  which 
shall  exceed  the  number  of  Twenty  one  Years,  and  That  either 
in  possession   or   not   above   three   years  before  the  End  and 


16  ORIGINAL  CHARTER. 

Expiration  or  Determination  of  the  Estate  or  Estates  in  posses- 
sion. 

^nir  roe  bo  by  these  presents  will,  ordain  and  direct,  that  the 
said  Governors  of  the  said  College  (Except  always  the  Lord 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  for  the  time  being,  and  our  first  Lord 
Commissioner  for  Trade  and  Plantations)  do,  at  their  first  meet- 
ing, after  the  receipt  of  these  our  Letters  patents,  and  before 
they  proceed  to  any  business  of  and  concerning  the  said  College, 
take  the  oaths  appointed  to  be  taken  by  an  act  passed  in  the 
first  year  of  our  Late  Royal  Father's  Reign,  Entituled,  [an  Act 
for  the  further  security  of  his  Majesty's  Person  and  Government, 
and  the  Succession  of  the  Crown,  in  the  Heirs  of  the  late  Prin- 
cess Sophia,  being  protestants,  and  for  extinguishing  the  Hopes 
of  the  pretended  Prince  of  wales,  and  his  open  and  Secret  abet- 
tors,] and  make  and  subscribe  the  declaration  mentioned  in  An 
Act  of  Parliament  made  in  the  twenty  fifth  year  of  the  Reign  of 
King  Charles  the  second,  Entituled,  [an  act  for  preventing  Dan- 
gers which  may  happen  from  popish  Recusants;]  as  also^  an 
oath,  faithfully  to  execute  the  trust  Reposed  in  them,  as  mem- 
bers of  the  said  Corporation,  which  Oaths  we  authorize  and 
Impower  the  Justices  of  our  Supreme  Court  of  Judicature,  for 
our  said  Province  of  New  York  for  the  time  being,  any  or  either 
of  them  to  administer;  and  that  when,  and  as  often  as  any  per- 
son or  persons,  either  by  his  office  or  place  in  our  said  Govern- 
ment, or  Elsewhere,  (Except  always  the  Lord  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury  for  the  time  being,  and  our  first  Lord  Commis- 
sioner for  Trade  and  Plantations  for  the  time  being,)  or  by 
Choice  of  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College,  shall  become, 
or  be  Chosen  a  Member  or  members  of  the  said  Corporation, 
they  shall,  before  they  are  admitted,  or  enter  into  the  said  office 
or  Trust,  take  the  said  Oaths,  and  subscribe  the  said  Declaration 
to  be  administered  to  them  in  the  manner  above  directed. 

^nb  toe  bo  further  will,  ordain,  and  direct,  that  the  Governors 
of  the  said  College  shall  yearly,  and  every  year  hereafter,  for- 
ever, on  the  Second  Tuesday  in  the  Month  of  May,  in  every 
year,  meet  together  in  our  said  City  of  New  York,  for  the  Bet- 
ter taking  care  of,  and  Promoting  the  Interest  of  the  said  Col- 
lege; and  that  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College,  or  any 
fifteen  or  more  of  them  being  met,  shall  be  a  Legal  meeting  of 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER.  IT 

the  said  Corporation,  and  they,  or  the  major  part  of  them  so 
met,  shall  have  full  power  and  authority  to  adjourn  from  day  to 
day,  as  the  Business  of  the  said  College  may  require,  and  to  do, 
execute,  and  perform,  all  and  every  act  and  acts,  thing  and 
things  whatsoever,  which  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College 
are,  or  shall  by  these,  our  Letters  patent,  be  authorized  and 
Impowered  to  do,  act,  or  Transact,  in  as  full  and  ample  manner, 
as  if  all  and  every  of  the  members  of  the  said  Corporation  were 
present. 

^nb  tDC  bo  will,  ordain,  and  direct,  that  as  our  Right  Trusty 
and  well  beloved  Thomas,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and 
the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  for  the  time  being;  and  our 
said  first  Lord  Commissioner  for  Trade  and  Plantations,  and  the 
First  Lord  Commissioner  for  Trade  and  plantations  for  the  time 
being,  cannot  attend  the  meetings  of  the  said  Corporation,  they 
and  each  of  them  shall,  from  time  to  time,  have  full  power  and 
authority  to  appoint  a  Proxy,  in  writing,  under  their  hand  and 
seal,  which  person  or  persons  so  appointed  by  them,  and  each 
of  them  shall  and  may  Represent  them,  and  each  of  them. 
Respectively,  according  to  such  appointment,  and  shall  have 
full  power  to  vote  and  act  as  a  Governor  or  Governors  of  the 
said  Corporation,  at  any  and  every  meeting  of  the  said  Corpo- 
ration, as  fully  and  amply  as  if  they,  the  Constituents,  and  each 
of  them  were  present  at  every  such  meeting  or  meetings ;  And^ 
in  Case  any  other  meeting  or  meetings  of  the  said  Governors  of 
the  said  College  shall,  at  any  other  time  or  times,  be  Judged  and 
deemed  Necessary  for  the  Carrying  on  and  promoting  of  the 
Business  and  Interest  of  the  said  College,  or  the  Government 
thereof,  by  any  five  members  of  the  said  Corporation,  we  do,  by 
these  presents,  authorize  and  Impower  such  five  members,  by 
writing,  under  their  hands,  to  direct  the  Clerk  of  the  said  Cor- 
poration to  Give  notice  of  the  day  appointed  by  them,  for  such 
meeting,  at  the  said  City  of  New  York,  by  advertising  the  same 
in  one  or  more  of  the  public  news  papers,  at  Least,  seven  Days 
before  such  meeting;  and,  that  at  such  meeting,  the  said  Clerk, 
before  entering  on  any  Business,  shall  Certify  such  Notification, 
under  his  hand,  to  the  Board  then  met ;  Provided.^  always^  Fifteen 
or  more  of  the  said  members  shall  be  then  met  together,  which 
said  fifteen  or  more  members,  so  met.  In  pursuance  oi  such  Noti- 


18  ORIGINAL  CHARTER. 

fication,  shall  be  a  Legal  meeting  of  the  said  Governors  of  the 
said  College ;  and  they,  or  the  major  part  of  them  so  mett,  shall 
have  full  power  and  authority  to  adjourn  from  day  to  day,  as 
the  Business  of  the  said  College  may  require,  and  to  do,  Trans- 
act, and  perform,  all  matters  and  things  whatsoever,  that  the 
said  Governors  of  the  said  College  are,  or  shall  be  authorized 
and  Impowered  to  do,  by  these  presents. 

^nt,  of  onr  fttrtl)er  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge,  and  meer 
motion,  to  the  Intent  that  the  said  Corporation  and  Body  poli- 
tick, may  answer  the  end  of  their  erection  and  Constitution,  and 
may  have  perpetual  succession  and  Continue  forever.  Wee  do  for 
us,  our  heirs  and  Successors,  Give  and  Grant  unto  the  said 
Governors  of  the  said  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  in 
the  City  of  New  York  in  America,  and  to  their  Successors  for 
ever,  that  when  and  as  often  as  they  or  any  fifteen  or  more  of  the 
said  members  of  the  said  Corporation  or  of  their  Successors  shall 
be  mett  together  at  their  said  Yearly  meeting  herein  before 
appointed,  or  at  any  other  meeting  upon  Notification,  as  afore- 
said, for  the  Service  of  the  said  College,  that  the  Governor  or 
Commander  in  chief  of  our  said  Province  of  New  York,  and,  in 
his  absence,  the  First  person  in  Rank  in  our  said  Government, 
who  holds  his  place  as  a  Governor  of  the  said  Corporation  by 
his  office,  place,  or  Dignity,  and,  in  the  absence  of  such,  the 
Eldest  Governor  or  member  of  the  said  Corporation  then 
present,  such  Seniority  to  be  taken  according  as  they  are  named 
in  this  our  Charter,  during  the  lives  of  the  present  Governors, 
and  after  their  death,  the  Seniority  to  be  taken  and  accounted  as 
they  have  been  a  Longer  or  shorter  time  Governors  of  the  said 
Corporation,  shall  preside  at  such  meeting  from  time  to  time, 
and  that  at  such  meeting  or  meetings  from  time  to  time, 
they  or  the  major  part  of  them  so  met,  shall  have  full  power  and 
authority  to  Elect,  nominate,  and  appoint  any  person  to  be  pres- 
ident of  the  said  College  in  a  Vacancy  of  the  said  Presidentship 
for  and  during  his  Good  Behaviour;  provided,  always,  such 
President  Elect  or  to  be  elected  by  them,  be  a  member  of,  and 
in  Communion  with  the  Church  of  England,  as  by  Law  Estab- 
lished ;  and,  also,  to  Elect  one  or  more  Fellow  or  Fellows,  Pro- 
fessor or  Professors,  Tutor  or  Tutors,  to  assist  the  President  of 
the  said  College  in  the  Education  and  Government  of  the  Stu- 


ORTGTNAL  CHARTER.  19 

dents  belonging  to  the  said  College,  which  Fellow  or  Fellows, 
Professor  or  Professors,  Tutor  or  Tutors,  and  every  of  them,  shall 
hold  and  Enjoy  their  said  office  or  place,  either  at  the  will  and 
pleasure  of  the  Governors  of  the  said  Corporation,  or  during  his 
or  their  Good  Behaviour,  according  as  shall  be  agreed  upon 
Between  such  Fellow  or  Fellows,  Professor  or  Professors, 
Tutor  or  Tutors,  and  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College, 
Provided.,  always.,  such  Fellow  or  Fellows,  Professor  or  Profes- 
sors, Tutor  or  Tutors,  before  they  or  either  of  them  enter  into 
or  take  upon  themselves  such  office,  do  take  the  Oaths  and  sub- 
scribe the  declaration  hereinbefore  directed,  to  be  Taken  and 
subscribed  by  the  Governors  of  the  said  College  before  they 
enter  upon  their  said  Respective  offices ;  and  that  when  and  as 
often  as  any  or  either  of  the  said  offices  shall  become  Vacant  by 
death  or  otherwise,  the  said  Governors  or  the  major  part  of  any 
Fifteen  or  more  of  them  so  met  as  aforesaid,  shall  have  full 
power  to  Elect,  Nominate,  and  appoint,  other  or  others  in  their 
places,  upon  the  same  proviso  or  Condition  as  aforesaid ;  and, 
Also.,  to  Elect,  Nominate,  and  appoint,  upon  the  Death,  Remo- 
val, Refusal  to  Qualify,  or  other  vacancy  of  the  place  or  places, 
of  any  Governor  or  Governors  of  the  said  Corporation  not  hold- 
ing his  office  or  place  as  a  member  of  the  same,  by  virtue  of  any 
other  station,  office,  place,  or  dignity,  from  time  to  time,  other 
or  others  in  their  places  or  stead  as  often  as  such  vacancy  shall 
happen,  which  Governor  or  Governors  so  from  time  to  time 
elected  and  appointed,  shall,  by  virtue  of  these  presents,  and 
of  such  Election  and  appointment  be  vested  with  all  the  powers, 
authoritys,  and  priviledges,  which  any  Governor  of  the  said  Cor- 
poration is  hereby  Invested  with. 

^n&,  toe  bo  ftirtl)ert  of  our  especial  Grace,  certain  Knowledge, 
and  meer  motion,  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors,  Grant  and 
ordain  that  when  and  as  often  as  the  president  of  the  said 
College,  or  any  Fellow,  Professor  or  Tutor  holding  his  place 
during  Good  behaviour  shall  misdemean  himself  in  his  or  their 
said  offices,  and  thereupon  a  Complaint  or  Charge  in  writing  of 
such  misdemeanour  shall  be  exhibited  against  him  or  them  by 
any  member  of  the  said  Corporation,  at  any  meeting  or  meetings 
of  the  said  Corporation  met  and  convened  as  aforesaid,  That  it 
shall  be  Lawful  for  the  said  members  of  the  said  Corporation 


20  ORIGINAL   CHARTER. 

then  met,  or  the  major  part  of  them  from  time  to  time,  upon 
Examination  and  due  proof,  to  suspend  or  discharge  such 
President,  Fellow,  Professor,  or  Tutor,  from  his  said  office,  and 
other  or  others  in  his  or  their  place  or  places  to  appoint;  and 
we  do  further  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors,  will  and  Grant 
that  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College,  or  the  major  part 
of  any  fifteen  or  more  of  them  Convened  and  mett  as  aforesaid, 
shall  and  may,  from  time  to  time,  as  occasion  may  require. 
Elect,  Constitute,  and  appoint,  a  Treasurer,  Clerk,  and  Steward, 
for  the  said  College,  and  to  appoint  them  and  each  of  them 
their  respective  Business  and  Trusts,  and  to  displace  and  dis- 
charge from  the  Service  of  the  said  College  such  Treasurer, 
Clerk,  or  steward,  and  to  elect  other  or  others  in  their  places 
and  stead ;  and  such  Treasurer,  Clerk,  and  steward,  so  Elected 
and  appointed,  we  do  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors,  by  these 
presents  Constitute  and  Establish  in  their  several  offices,  and  do 
Give  them  full  power  and  authority  to  Exercise  the  same  in  the 
said  College,  according  to  the  direction  and  during  the  pleasure 
of  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College,  or  the  major  part  of 
any  fifteen  or  more  of  them  Convened  as  aforesaid,  as  fully  and 
freely  as  any  other  the  like  officers  in  any  of  our  universities  or 
any  of  our  Colleges  in  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great 
Britain  called  England,  Lawfully  may  and  ought  to  do :  and  we 
do  further,  of  our  Especial  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge,  and  meer 
motion,  Give  and  Grant  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  said 
College,  that  they  and  their  Successors,  or  the  major  part  of  any 
fifteen  or  more  of  them  Convened  and  mett  Together  in  manner 
aforesaid,  shall  and  may  direct  and  appoint  what  Books  shall 
be  publickly  read  and  taught  in  the  said  College,  by  the  Presi- 
dent, Fellows,  Professors,  and  Tutors;  and  shall  and  may,  under 
their  Common  seal,  make  and  set  down,  and  they  are  hereby 
fully  Impowered,  from  time  to  time,  to  make  and  set  down  in 
writing,  such  Laws,  ordinances,  and  orders,  for  the  Better 
Government  of  the  said  College,  and  Students,  and  Ministers 
thereof,  as  they  shall  think  best  for  the  General  Good  of  the 
same,  so  that  they  are  not  Repugnant  to  the  Laws  and  statutes 
of  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  called  England, 
or  of  our  said  Province  of  New  York,  and  do  not  extend  to 
exclude  any  person  of  any  Religious  Denomination  whatever 


ORIGINAL   CHARTER.  21 

from  Equal  Liberty  and  advantage  of  Education,  or  from  any 
of  the  Degrees,  Liberties,  Priviledges,  Benefits,  or  Immunities  of 
the  said  College,  on  account  of  his  particular  Tenets  in  matters 
of  Religion;  And  such  laws,  Ordinances,  and  orders,  which 
shall  be  so  made  as  aforesaid,  we  do  by  these  Presents,  for  us, 
our  heirs,  and  Successors,  Ratify,  Confirm,  and  allow,  as  Good 
and  Effectual  to  bind  and  oblige  all  and  every  the  Students  and 
Officers  and  Ministers  of  the  said  College;  and  we  do  hereby 
authorize  and  Impower  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College, 
or  the  major  part  of  any  fifteen  or  more  of  them,  at  any  of  their 
meetings  Convened  as  aforesaid,  and  the  President,  Fellows,  and 
Professors  for  the  time  being,  to  put  such  Laws,  ordinances, 
and  orders,  in  execution,  that  is  to  say,  such  as  Inflict  upon  any 
Student  the  Greater  Punishments  of  Expulsion,  Suspension, 
Degradation,  and  public  Confession,  by  the  Governors  of  the 
said  College,  or  the  major  part  of  any  fifteen  or  more  of  them, 
convened  and  met  Together  as  aforesaid  only;  and  such  as 
Inflict  the  Lesser  Punishments,  by  the  President,  Fellows,  and 
Professors,  or  any  of  them,  according  to  the  true  Intent  of  such 
Laws,  ordinances,  and  orders,  as  shall  be  made  In  Pursuance  of 
these  presents  for  that  purpose. 

^nb  txje  bo  furtljer  will,  ordain,  and  direct,  that  there  shall  be 
forever  hereafter  Publick  morning  and  evening  service  Con- 
stantly performed  in  the  said  College,  morning  and  evening 
for  ever,  by  the  President,  Fellows,  Professors,  or  Tutors,  of 
the  said  College,  or  one  of  them,  according  to  the  Liturgy  of 
the  Church  of  England  as  by  Law  Established,  or  such  a  Col- 
lection of  prayers  out  of  the  said  Liturgy,  with  a  Collect  peculiar 
for  the  said  College,  as  shall  be  approved  of  from  time  to  time 
by  the  Governors  of  the  said  College,  or  the  major  part  of  any 
fifteen  or  more  of  them  Convened  as  aforesaid :  and  we  do  fur- 
ther will  and  Grant,  that  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College 
for  the  time  being,  or  the  major  part  of  any  fifteen  or  more  of 
them  Convened  as  aforesaid,  shall  have  full  power  and  Lawful 
authority  to  visit,  order,  punish,  place,  and  displace.  The 
Treasurer,  Clerk,  Steward,  students,  and  other  officers  and  min- 
isters of  the  said  College,  and  to  order,  Reform,  and  Redress, 
all  and  any  the  disorders,  misdemeanors  and  abuses  in  the 
persons  aforesaid,  or  any  of  them,  and  to  Censure,  suspend   or 


23  ORIGINAL  CHARTER. 

deprive  them,  or  any  or  either  of  them,  So  always^  that  no  visi- 
tation, act,  or  thing,  in  or  Concerning  the  said  College,  be 
made  or  done  by  any  other  person  or  persons  whatsoever  but 
as  is  herein  before  Directed  and  Declared. 

^n&  toe  iro  ftirtl)er,  of  our  Especial  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge, 
and  meer  motion,  will,  Give,  and  Grant,  unto  the  said  Gov- 
ernors of  the  said  College,  that  for  the  Encouragement  of  the 
Students  of  the  said  College  to  Diligence  and  Industry  in  their 
Studies,  that  they  and  their  Successors,  and  the  major  part  of 
any  fifteen  or  more  of  them  Convened  and  mett  together  as 
aforesaid,  do,  by  the  President  of  the  said  College,  or  any  other 
person  or  persons  by  them  authorized  and  appointed,  Give  and 
Grant  any  such  degree  and  degrees  to  any  the  students  of  the 
said  College,  or  any  other  person  or  persons  by  them  thought 
worthy  thereof,  as  are  usually  Granted  by  any  or  either  of  our 
universities  or  Colleges  in  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great 
Britain  called  England,  and  that  the  President,  or  such  other 
persons  to  be  appointed  for  that  purpose  as  aforesaid,  do  sign 
and  seal  Diplomas  or  Certificates  of  such  Degree  or  Degrees,  to 
be  kept  by  the  Graduates  as  a  Testimonial  thereof. 

^n&  fttrtl)er,  of  our  Especial  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge,  and 
meer  motion,  we  do  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors,  will. 
Give,  and  Grant,  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College, 
and  to  their  Successors,  that  they  shall  and  may  have  one  Com- 
mon Seal,  under  which  they  shall  and  may  pass  all  Grants, 
Diplomas,  and  all  other  writings  whatsoever,  requisite,  neces- 
sary, or  Convenient  to  pass  under  the  seal  of  the  said  Corpora- 
tion ;  which  seal  shall  be  Engraven  in  such  form  and  with  such 
Devices  and  Inscriptions  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  by  the  said 
Governors  of  the  said  College,  or  the  major  part  of  any  fifteen 
or  more  of  them  that  shall  be  Convened  for  the  service  of  the 
said  College,  in  the  manner  above  directed ;  and  by  these  our 
Letters  patent  it  shall  and  may  be  Lawful  for  them  and  their 
Successors,  at  any  of  their  meetings  Convened  as  aforesaid,  as 
they  shall  see  cause,  to  Break,  Change,  alter,  and  new  make 
the  same,  or  any  other  common  Seal,  when  and  as  often  as  to 
them  shall  seem  convenient. 

^nb  txje,  fttrtl)er,  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors,  Give  and 
Grant  unto  the  said  Governors   of  the  said  College,  and  their 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER.  33 

Successors,  or  the  major  part  of  any  fifteen  or  more  of  them 
Convened  as  aforesaid,  full  power  and  authority,  from  time  to 
time,  and  at  all  times  hereafter,  to  nominate  and  appoint  all 
other  Inferior  officers  or  Ministers  which  they  shall  think  conve- 
nient and  necessary  for  the  use  of  the  College,  not  herein  par- 
ticularly named  or  mentioned,  which  Officers  and  Ministers  we 
do  hereby  Impower  to  execute  their  Respective  offices  or  Trusts, 
during  the  will  and  pleasure  only  of  the  Governors  of  the  said 
College,  or  the  major  part  of  any  fifteen  or  more  of  them 
Convened  as  aforesaid,  as  fully  and  freely  as  any  other  the  like 
Officers  or  ministers  in  and  of  our  Universities  or  any  other 
College  in  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  Called 
England  may  or  ought  to  do. 

^nlr,  Castlg*  of  our  Express  will  and  pleasure,  and  meer 
motion,  we  do,  for  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors,  Give  and 
Grant  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College,  and  to  their 
Successors  for  ever,  that  these  our  Letters  patent,  being  entered 
of  Record,  as  is  herein  after  particularly  Expressed,  or  the 
Enrollment  thereof,  shall  be  Good  and  Effectual  in  the  Law,  to 
all  Intents  and  purposes,  against  us,  our  heirs,  and  Successors, 
without  any  other  Lycense,  Grant,  or  Confirmation,  from  us^ 
our  heirs,  or  Successors,  hereafter  by  the  said  Governors  of  the 
said  College  to  be  had  or  obtained.  Notwithstanding  the  not 
reciting  or  misrecital,  or  not  naming  or  misnaming,  of  the 
aforesaid  offices.  Franchises,  Priviledges,  Immunities,  or  other 
the  premisses,  or  any  of  them ;  and  notwithstanding  a  writt  ad 
Quod  Damnum  hath  not  issued  forth  to  inquire  of  or  concerning 
the  Premisses,  or  any  of  them,  before  the  ensealing  hereof,  any 
Statute,  act.  Ordinance,  or  provision,  or  any  other  matter  or 
thing  to  the  Contrary  thereof  in  any  wise  Notwithstanding;  To 
have,  hold,  and  Enjoy,  all  and  singular  the  Priviledges,  Liberties, 
advantages,  and  Immunities,  and  all  and  singular  other  the 
Premisses  herein  or  hereby  Granted,  or  meant,  mentioned,  or 
Intended  to  be  herein  and  hereby  Given  and  Granted  unto 
them,  the  said  Governors  of  the  said  College  of  the  Province  of 
New  York,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  America,  and  to  their 
Successors  for  ever. 

3fn  QTestitnong  whereof,  we  have  caused  these  our  Letters  to 
be  made  patent,  and  the  Great  seal  of  our  Province  of  New 


24  ORIGINAL  CHARTER. 

York  to  be  hereunto  affixed,  and  the  same  to  be  entered  of 
Record  in  our  Secretary's  office  of  our  said  Province,  in  one  of 
the  Books  of  Patents  there  Remaining. 

toitness  our  Trusty  and  well  beloved  James  De  Lancey^  Esq., 
our  Lieutenant  Governor,  and  Commander  in  chief  in  and  over 
our  Province  of  New  York,  and  the  Territories  depending 
thereon,  in  America,  in,  by,  and  with  the  Advice  and  Consent  of 
our  Council  of  our  said  Province,  this  thirty  first  day  of  Octo- 
ber, in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  four,  and  of  our  Reign  the  twenty  eighth.  The  following 
Erasures  and  Interlineations  appearing  in  these  our  Letters 
Patent.  That  is  to  say,  in  the  first  skin.  Line  four,  the  word 
[Law],  Line  nineteen,  these  words,  [by  these  our  Letters 
Patent,  that  there  be  Erected  and  made]  Interlined :  line  twenty 
one,  [with]  wrote  on  Eraisure:  line  twenty  two,  [Law]  Inter- 
lined. In  the  second  skin,  line  Twelve,  [the]  interlined,  and 
[Younger]  wrote  on  Eraisure.  In  the  third  skin,  the  First  line, 
[and  secret,]  and  in  the  sixth  Line,  [Administered]  wrote  partly 
on  eraisure.  In  the  twelfth  line,  [And  the  first  Lord  Commis- 
sioner for  Trade  and  Plantations]  Interlined.  And  in  the  fourth 
skin,  and  first  line,  the  word  [And]  Interlined. 

Clarke,  Junior. 

[great  seal  of  the  province.] 


PETITION  FOR  ADDITIONAL  CHARTER. 

To  THE  Honourable  James  De  Lancey  Esqr.,  his  Majesty's 
Lieut.  Governour  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
Province  of  New  York  and  Territories  thereon  depend- 
ing, IN  COUNCILL. 

QLilC  JJetUion  of  the  Governours  of  the  College  of  the  Province 
of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America. 
Humbly  sheweth. 

TMt  Whereas  by  his  Majesty's  Letters  Patent  of  Incorporation 
bearing  date  the  31st  of  October  1754,  the  sole  power  of  elect- 
ing Professors  in  said  College  is  vested  in  said  Governours,  and 

Whereas  Your  Honour's  Petitioners  humbly  conceive,  that  it 
will  tend  to  the  Prosperity  of  the  College,  and  the  increase  of 
the  number  of  Students  if  Provision  could  be  made,  for  estab- 
lishing a  Professorship  in  Divinity,  for  the  Instruction  of  such 
Youth,  as  may  intend  to  devote  themselves  to  the  sacred  Min- 
istry in  those  Churches,  in  this  Province,  that  are  in  Commun- 
ion with  and  conform  to  the  Doctrine  discipline  and  Worship 
established  in  the  united  Provinces  by  the  National  Synod  of 
Dort,  and  any  other  students  that  may  be  desirous  to  attend  his 
Lectures. 

^OUr  flononr's  Petitioners  therefore  humbly  pray,  that  an 
Additional  Charter  be  Granted  them  for  that  Purpose,  and  that 
the  nomination  of  such  Professor  from  time  to  time  be  in  the 
Minister  Elders  and  Deacons  of  the  Reformed  Protestant 
Dutch  Church  in  this  City  and  the  same  established  in  such 
manner  as  shall  seem  best  to  your  Honour.  And  Your  Peti- 
tioners as  in  duty  bound  shall  ever  pray. 

Wm.  Kempe,  Philip  Ver  Planck, 

A.  D:  Peyster,  Fred.  Philipse, 

Hen.  Barclay,  Jos.  Robinson, 

Joannes  Ritzema,  John  Cruger, 

John  Albert  Weygand,  James  Livingston, 

Joannes  Carle,  B.  NicoU, 

Samuel  Johnson,  Jos.  Reade, 

Josiah  Martin,  Nathal.  Marston, 

Paul  Richard,  Joseph  Haynes, 

Hen.  Cruger,  Jno.  Livingston, 

Jno.  Watts,  David  Clarkson, 

Henry  Beekman,  Leonard  Lispenard, 
James  De  Lancey. 
New  York,  May  13th,  1755. 

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ADDITIONAL  CHARTER  OF  QTlje  (3ot)txnov5  of  tlje  aTol- 
lege  of  tlie  J)rot)ince  of  Neuj-fork  in  tl)e  (Hitg  of  Nexxj- 
gork  in  America. 

(George  tl)e  Quonh,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  of  Great-Britain, 
France  and  Ireland,  King,  Defender  of  the  Faith  and  so  forth, 
TO  ALL  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come.  Greeting. 

tol)erea0  Our  loving  Subjects,  The  Governors  of  the  College  of 
the  Province  of  New- York,  in  the  City  of  New- York,  in  America, 
by  their  humble  Petition  presented  to  Our  Trusty  and  Well- 
beloved  James  De  Lancey,  Esq;  Our  Lieutenant  Governor  and 
Commander  in  Chief  of  Our  said  Province  of  New- York,  In 
Council,  have  set  forth,  That  although  by  Our  Letters  Patent  of 
Incorporation,  bearing  Date  the  Thirty  First  Day  of  October  last 
past,  the  sole  Power  of  electing  Professors  in  said  College,  is 
vested  in  the  said  Governors :  Yet  the  said  Petitioners  humbly  con- 
ceived, that  it  would  tend  to  the  Prosperity  of  the  College,  and 
the  Increase  of  the  Number  of  Students,  if  Provision  could  be 
made  for  establishing  a  Professorship  in  Divinity  in  the  same, 
for  the  Instruction  of  such  Youth  as  may  intend  to  devote  them- 
selves to  the  sacred  Ministry,  in  those  Churches  in  this  Province 
that  are  in  Communion  with,  and  conform  to  the  Doctrine, 
Discipline  and  Worship  established  in  the  United  Provinces, 
by  the  National  Synod  of  Dort;  and  any  other  Students  that 
may  be  desirous  to  attend  his  Lectures:  And  therein  did 
humbly  pray,  That  an  additional  Charter  might  be  granted 
them  for  that  Purpose ;  and  that  the  Nomination  of  such  Pro- 
fessor, from  Time  to  Time,  be  in  the  Minister,  Elders  and 
Deacons  of  the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church  in  the  City 
of  New- York. 

^rib  toljereas  upon  the  Surrender  of  this  Our  Province  by  the 
Dutch,  in  the  Year  of  Our  Lord  One  Thousand  Six  Hundred 
and  Sixty-four,  it  is  provided  by  the  Eighth  Article  of  Surrender, 
That  the  Dutch  here  shall  enjoy  the  Liberty  of  their  Consciences 
in  Divine  Worship  and  Church  Discipline.  And  We  being  will- 
ing and  desirous,  that  all  Our  Loving  Subjects,  the  Members  of 
the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Churches,  who  are  very  numerous 


ADDITIONAL  CHARTER.  27 

in  Our  Government  of  New- York,  should  always  continue  as 
they  have  hitherto  done,  to  enjoy  the  Liberty  of  their  Con- 
sciences in  Divine  Worship  and  Church  Discipline,  and  that 
they  may  always  have  learned  Pastors  and  Teachers  to  instruct 
and  assist  them  therein ;  as  also  to  promote  the  Prosperity  of 
the  aforesaid  College,  and  the  Increase  of  the  Number  of 
Students  therein.  Know  Ye,  That  of  Our  especial  Grace,  cer- 
tain Knowledge,  and  meer  Motion,  We  have  willed,  granted, 
constituted  and  appointed,  and  by  these  Presents,  Do  will  and 
grant  to  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New- 
York,  in  the  City  of  New- York  in  America,  and  to  their  Suc- 
cessors, that  from  Time  to  Time,  and  at  all  Times  hereafter 
FOREVER,  there  may,  and  shall  be  in  the  said  College,  a  Pro- 
fessor of  Divinity  of  the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church, 
for  the  Instruction  of  such  Youth  as  may  intend  to  devote  them- 
selves to  the  sacred  Ministry  in  those  Churches,  in  this  Our 
Province  of  New- York,  that  are  in  Communion  with,  and  con- 
form to  the  Doctrine,  Discipline  and  Worship  established  in  the 
United  Provinces,  by  the  National  Synod  of  Dort;  and  any 
other  Students  that  may  be  desirous  to  attend  his  Lectures. 

^nb  toe  bo,  by  these  Presents,  will,  give,  grant  and  appoint, 
That  such  Professor  shall  be  from  Time  to  Time,  and  at  all 
Times  hereafter,  nominated,  chosen  and  appointed  by  the 
Ministers,  Elders  and  Deacons  of  the  Reformed  Protestant 
Dutch  Church,  in  the  City  of  New- York,  for  the  Time  being, 
when  they  shall  see  fit  to  make  such  Nomination,  Choice  and 
Appointment.  And  they  are  hereby  fully  impowered  and  author- 
ized to  make  such  Nomination,  Choice  and  Appointment;  and 
are  hereby  required  to  certify  such  Nomination,  Choice  and 
Appointment,  to  the  Governors  of  the  said  College,  under  their 
Corporation  Seal:  Provided  always,  such  Professor  so  to  be 
chosen  from  Time  to  Time  by  them,  be  a  Member  of,  and  in 
Communion  with  the  said  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church. 
And  thereupon  the  Governors  of  the  said  College,  and  the 
President  thereof  for  the  Time  being,  shall,  and  are  hereby 
required  and  commanded  to  receive  and  admit  him  accordingly: 
Any  Thing  in  Our  herein  before-mentioned  Charter  of  Incor- 
poration to  the  contrary  hereof  in  any  wise  notwithstanding. 
Which  Professor  of  Divinity,   We  will  and  direct,  shall,  before 


28  ADDITIONAL  CHARTER. 

he  enter  into  or  take  upon  himself  such  Office,  take  the  Oaths 
and  subscribe  the  Declaration  directed  in  Our  Charter  afore- 
said, for  the  other  Professors  and  Officers  of  the  said  College  to 
take,  before  one  of  the  Judges  of  Our  Supreme  Court  of  Judica- 
ture for  Our  said  Province  of  New- York,  who  is  hereby  im- 
powered  and  authorized  to  administer  the  same. 

^nb  toe  50  further  will,  ordain  and  grant.  That  the  said  Pro- 
fessor of  Divinity,  shall  hold  his  said  Place  or  Office  during  his 
good  Behaviour,  or  during  Will  and  Pleasure,  according  to 
such  Agreement  as  shall  be  made  between  him  and  the  said 
Minister,  Elders  and  Deacons  of  the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch 
Church,  at  the  Time  of  his  Nomination  and  Appointment;  and 
be  intituled  unto,  and  have,  exercise  and  enjoy  the  same,  and 
like  Powers,  Privileges,  and  Authorities  in  the  said  College,  as 
other  Professors  of  and  in  the  same  do  or  may  have,  hold,  exer- 
cise, or  enjoy  in  the  same.  And  also  shall  demean  and  conform 
himself  to  such  Rules,  Laws  and  Regulations  as  the  other  Pro- 
fessors in  the  said  College  are  or  shall  be  obliged  to  conform 
unto,  and  regulate  themselves  by.  And  in  Case  he  shall  mis- 
demean  himself  in  his  said  Office,  he  shall  be  liable  to  be  sus- 
pended or  discharged  from  the  same,  in  the  same  Manner  as 
other  Professors  of  and  in  the  said  College  are  or  may  be  sus- 
pended or  discharged,  by  Virtue  of  Our  aforesaid  Charter  of 
Incorporation. 

Jn  testitnong  whereof.  We  have  caused  these  Our  Letters 
to  be  made  Patent,  and  the  Great  Seal  of  Our  said 
Province  to  be  hereunto  affixed,  and  the  same  to  be 
entered  of  Record  in  Our  Secretary's  Office,  in  Our 
City  of  New-York,  in  one  of  the  Books  of  Patents 
there  remaining. 

toitness  Our  said  Trusty  and  Well-beloved  James 
De  Lancey,  Esq  ;  Our  Lieutenant  Governor  and 
Commander  in  Chief,  in  and  over  Our  Province  of 
New-York,  and  Territories  thereon  depending  in 
America;  at  Our  Fort  in  Our  City  of  New- York  in 
and  by  the  Advice  and  Consent  of  Our  Council  of 
Our  said  Province  the  Thirtieth  Day  of  May,  in  the 
Year  of  Our  Lord  One  Thousand  Seven  Hundred 
and  Fifty  Five,  and  of  Our  Reign  the  Twenty 
Eighth. 

Clarke,  junior. 
[great  seal  of  the  province.] 


ACTS  RELATING  TO  THE  COLLEGE. 

An  Act  for  appropriating  the  monies  raised  by  diverse 
Lotteries  for  erecting  or  founding  a  College  in  this 
Colony.  Passed  December  i,  1756. 

Laws  of  1756,  Chap.  116. 

JprODlbes  for  the  payment  of  one  moiety  or  half  part  of  the 
moneys  raised  by  the  Lotteries  held  under  the  preceding  acts  to 
the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  and 
the  other  moiety  or  half  part  to  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Com- 
monalty of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  provides  for  the  payment 
to  the  Governors  of  ;£5oo  per  annum  for  seven  years.  Under 
this  act  the  College  received  ^^3,282. 


CHARTER   OF    1784. 

An  Act  for  granting  certain  privileges  to  the  college 
heretofore  called  kings  college,  for  altering  the  name 
and  charter  thereof,  and  erecting  an  university  within 
THIS  State.  Passed  May  i,  1784. 

Laws  of  1784,  Chap.  51. 

tol)ereas  bg  Utters  patent  under  the  great  seal  of  the  late 
colony  of  New  York,  bearing  date  the  thirty-first  day  of  October 
in  the  twenty-eighth  year  of  the  reign  of  George  the  second  the 
king  of  Great  Britain,  a  certain  body  politic  and  corporate,  was 
created  by  the  name  of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the 
Province  of  New  York  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  America, 
with  divers  privileges,  capacities  and  immunities,  as  in  and  by 
the  said  patent  will  more  fully  appear. 

And  whereas  there  are  many  vacancies  in  the  said  corporation, 
occasioned  by  the  death  or  absence  of  a  great  number  of  the 
governors  of  the  said  college,  whereby  the  succession  is  so 
greatly  broke  in  upon  as  to  require  the  interposition  of  the 
Legislature. 

29 


30  CHARTER  OF  1784. 

And  whereas  the  remaining  governors  of  the  said  college, 
desireous  to  render  the  same  extensively  useful,  have  prayed, 
that  the  said  college  may  be  erected  into  an  university,  and  that 
such  other  alterations  may  be  made  in  the  charter  or  letters  of 
incorporation  above  recited,  as  may  render  them  more  con- 
formable to  the  liberal  principles  of  the  Constitution  of  this 
State. 

Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New  York 
represented  in  Senate  and  Assembly  and  it  is  hereby  enacted  by  the 
authority  of  the  same^  That  all  the  rights  priviledges  and  immuni- 
ties heretofore  vested  in  the  corporation,  heretofore  known  by 
the  name  of  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of 
New  York,  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  America,  so  far  as  they 
relate  to  the  capacity  of  holding,  or  disposing  of  property  either 
real  or  personal,  of  suing  or  being  sued,  of  making  laws  or  ordi- 
nances for  their  own  government,  or  that  of  their  servants, 
pupils  and  others,  under  their  care  and  subject  to  their  direc- 
tion, of  appointing,  displacing  and  paying  stewards  and  other 
inferior  servants,  of  making,  holding  and  having  a  common  seal, 
of  altering  and  changing  the  same  at  pleasure,  be  and  they 
hereby  are  vested  in  the  regents  of  the  university  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  who  are  hereby  erected  into  a  corporation  or  body 
corporate  and  politic,  and  enabled  to  hold  possess  and  enjoy  the 
above  mentioned  rights,  franchises,  priviledges  and  immunities, 
together  with  such  others  as  are  contained  in  this  act,  by  the 
name  and  stile  of  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  of  whom  the  Governor,  the  Lieutenant  Governor, 
the  President  of  the  Senate  for  the  time  being,  the  Speaker  of 
the  Assembly,  the  mayor  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  the 
mayor  of  the  city  of  Albany,  the  Attorney  General  and  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  State  respectively  for  the  time  being,  be  and  they 
hereby  are  severally  constituted  perpetual  regents,  in  virtue  of 
their  several  and  respective  offices,  places  and  stations,  and 
together  with  other  persons  herein  after  named  to  the  number  of 
twenty-four,  to  wit,  Henry  Brockholst  Livingston  and  Robert 
Harpurof  the  city  of  New  York,  Walter  Livingston  and  Christo- 
pher Yates  of  the  county  of  Albany,  Anthony  Hoffman  and 
Cornelius  Humfrey  of  the  county  of  Dutchess,  Lewis  Morris 
and   Philip   Pell  Junior  of  the  county  of  Westchester,   Henry 


CHARTER  OF  1784.  31 

Wisner  and  John  Haring  of  the  county  of  Orange,  Christopher 
Tappen  and  James  Clinton  of  the  county  of  Ulster,  Christopher 
P.  Yates  and  James  Livingston  of  the  county  of  Montgomery, 
Abraham  Bancker  and  John  C.  Dongan  of  the  county  of  Rich- 
mond, Mathew  Clarkson  and  Rutger  Van  Brunt  of  the  county 
of  Kings,  James  Townsend  and  Thomas  Lawrence  of  the  county 
of  Queens,  Ezra  L'Hommedieu  and  Caleb  Smith  of  the  county 
of  Suffolk,  and  John  Williams  and  John  McCrea  of  the  county  of 
Washington,  be  and  they  hereby  are  appointed  regents  of  the 
said  University  and  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  to  and  for  the 
clergy  of  the  respective  religious  denominations  in  this  State,  to 
meet  at  such  time  and  place,  as  they  shall  deem  proper  after  the 
passing  of  this  act,  and  being  so  met  shall  by  a  majority  of 
voices  of  those  who  shall  so  meet,  chuse  and  appoint  one  of  their 
body  to  be  a  regent  in  the  said  university  and  in  case  of  death 
or  resignation  to  chose  and  appoint  another  in  the  same  manner 
and  the  regent  so  chosen  and  appointed  shall  have  the  like 
powers  as  any  other  regent  appointed  or  to  be  appointed  by 
virtue  of  this  act.  And  to  the  end  that  a  succession  of  regents 
be  perpetually  kept  up. 

Be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  whenever 
and  so  often  as  one  or  more  of  the  regents  of  the  said  university, 
not  being  such  in  virtue  of  his  or  their  office,  place  or  station, 
shall  remove  his  or  their  place  of  residence  from  within  this 
State,  shall  resign  or  die,  that  the  place  or  places  of  such  regent 
or  regents,  so  removing,  resigning  or  dying  shall  be  filled  up  by 
the  governor  or  person  administering  the  government  of  the 
State  for  the  time  being,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  council  of  appointment,  so  that  such  appointments  be  of 
persons  resident  in  the  counties  respectively  wherein  the  former 
regents  did  reside,  other  than  where  such  vacancy  may  happen 
of  a  regent  appointed  by  the  clergy  as  aforesaid. 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  as  soon 
as  may  be  after  the  passing  of  this  act,  the  regents  of  the  said 
university,  shall  by  plurality  of  voices,  chuse  a  chancellor  a  vice 
chancellor  a  treasurer  and  a  secretary,  from  among  the  said 
regents,  the  said  chancellor  or  in  his  absence  the  vice  chancellor 
to  preside  at  all  elections  and  other  meetings  to  be  held  by  the 
said  regents,  and  to  have  the  casting  vote  upon  every  division. 


32  CHARTER  OF  1784. 

And  for  the  well  ordering  and  directing  of  the  said  corpora- 
tion. 

Be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the  regents 
of  the  said  university,  or  a  majority  of  them  shall  be  and  hereby 
are  vested  with  full  power  and  authority  to  ordain  and  make 
ordinances  and  bye  laws  for  the  government  of  the  several  col- 
leges, which  may  or  shall  compose  the  said  university,  and  the 
several  presidents,  professors,  tutors,  fellows,  pupils  and  servants 
thereof  and  for  the  management  of  such  estate  as  they  may  and 
shall  be  invested  with;  that  they  shall  have  full  power  and 
authority  to  determine  the  salaries  of  the  officers  and  servants 
of  the  said  college  to  remove  from  office  any  such  president 
professor  tutor  fellow  or  servant,  as  they  conceive,  after  a  full 
hearing  to  have  abused  their  trust,  or  to  be  incompetent  thereto, 
provided  nevertheless,  that  no  fine  to  be  levied  by  virtue  of  the 
said  laws  or  ordinances,  shall  exceed  the  value  of  one  bushel  of 
wheat  for  any  one  offence,  and  that  no  pupil  or  student  shall  be 
suspended  for  a  longer  term  than  twenty  days,  or  be  rusticated 
or  expelled,  but  upon  a  fair  and  full  hearing  of  the  parties,  by 
the  chancellor  or  vice  chancellor  of  the  said  university,  and  at 
least  ten  of  the  regents  not  being  president  or  professors  of  the 
college  to  which  the  person  accused  belongs,  or  under  whose 
immediate  direction  the  same  may  be,  and  the  said  regents  are 
hereby  further  impowered  and  directed  as  soon  as  may  be,  to 
elect  a  president  and  professors  for  the  college  heretofore  called 
Kings  College,  which  president  shall  continue  in  place  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  regents  of  the  university.  And  that  from 
and  after  the  first  election,  the  said  president  and  all  future 
presidents  shall  be  elected,  from  out  of  the  professors  of  the 
several  colleges,  that  may  or  shall  compose  the  said  university, 
and  that  no  professor  shall  in  any  wise  whatsoever  be  accounted 
inelligible,  for  or  by  reason  of  an  religious  tenet  or  tenets,  that 
he  may  or  shall  profess,  or  be  compelled  by  any  bye  law  or 
otherwise,  to  take  any  religious  test-oath  whatsoever.  And  to 
the  end  that  the  intention  of  the  donors  and  benefactors  of  the 
said  beforementioned  college  be  not  defeated. 

Be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  all  the  estate 
whether  real  or  personal,  which  the  said  governor  of  the  corpora- 
tion of  Kings  College  held  by  virtue  of  the  said  beforementioned 


CHARTER  OF  1784.  88 

charter,  be  held  and  possessed  by  the  said  regents  and  applied 
solely  to  the  use  of  the  said  college  and  that  the  said  regents 
may  and  there  hereby  are  empowered  to  receive  and  hold 
for  the  use  of  the  said  college,  an  estate  of  the  annual 
value  of  three  thousand  five  hundred  pounds,  in  manner  specified 
in  the  first  above  recited  charter  or  letters  patent  of  incorpora- 
tion. And  for  the  further  promotion  of  learning  and  the  exten- 
sion of  literature. 

Be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the  said 
regents  may  hold,  and  possess  estates,  real  and  personal  to  the 
annual  amount  of  forty  thousand  bushels  of  wheat,  over  and 
above  all  profits  arising  from  room  rent  or  tuition  money,  and 
that  whenever  any  lands  tenements  or  hereditaments,  or  other 
estate  real  or  personal,  shall  be  given,  granted  or  conveyed  to 
the  regents  of  the  university  of  the  State  without  expressing  any 
designation  thereof,  such  estate  shall  be  applied  in  such  manner 
as  to  the  said  regents  shall  seem  most  advantageous  to  the  said 
university  provided  always,  that  whenever  any  gift,  grant,  be- 
quest, devise  or  conveyance  shall  express  the  particular  use  to 
which  the  same  is  to  be  applied  if  adequate  thereto,  it  shall  be 
so  applied  and  not  otherwise. 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the  said 
regents  be  and  they  hereby  are  impowered,  to  found  schools  and 
colleges  in  any  such  part  of  this  State  as  may  seem  expedient  to 
them,  and  to  endow  the  same,  vesting  such  colleges  so  endowed 
with  full  and  ample  powers  to  confer  the  degrees  of  batchelor  of 
arts,  and  directing  the  manner  in  which  such  colleges  are  to  be 
governed,  always  reserving  to  the  chancellor  and  vice  chancellor 
of  the  university,  and  a  certain  number  of  the  regents,  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  a  majority  of  the  said  regents,  a  right  to  visit  and 
examine  into  the  state  of  literature  in  such  college,  and  to  report 
to  the  regents  at  large  any  deficiency  in  the  laws  of  such  college 
or  neglect  in  the  execution  thereof,  every  such  school  or  college 
being  at  all  times  to  be  deemed  a  part  of  the  university,  and  as 
such,  subject  to  the  controul  and  direction  of  the  said  regents ; 
and  if  it  should  so  happen,  that  any  person  or  persons,  or  any 
body  politic  or  corporate,  should  at  his  or  their  expense  found 
any  college  or  school,  and  endow  the  same  with  an  estate,  real 
or  personal  of  the  yearly  value  of  one  thousand  bushels  of  wheat, 


84  CHARTER  OF  1784. 

that  such  school  or  college  shall  on  the  application  of  the  founder 
or  founders  or  their  heirs  or  successors,  be  considered  as  com- 
posing a  part  of  the  said  university,  and  the  estate  thereunto 
annexed  shall  be  and  hereby  is  vested  in  the  said  regents,  of  the 
university,  to  be  applied  according  to  the  intention  of  the  donor, 
and  that  the  said  founder  and  founders,  and  their  heirs,  or  if  a 
body  corporate,  their  successors  shall  be  and  hereby  are  forever 
hereafter  entitled  to  send  a  representative  for  such  college  or 
school,  who  together  with  the  president  (if  the  estate  is  applied 
to  the  use  of  a  college)  shall  be  and  they  hereby  are  at  all  times 
hereafter  to  be  considered  as  regents  of  the  said  university,  and 
vested  with  the  like  powers  and  authorities  in  all  things,  as  in 
and  by  this  act  is  given  to  the  other  regents  of  the  said  univer- 
sity and  the  said  college  or  school  shall  in  all  things,  not  par- 
ticularly restricted  by  the  donor,  conform  to  the  general  laws 
and  regulations  of  the  said  university,  provided  that  nothing  in 
this  act  contained  shall  be  construed  to  deprive  any  person  or 
persons  of  the  right  to  erect  such  schools  and  colleges  as  to  him 
or  them  may  deem  proper,  independent  of  the  said  university. 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  whenever 
any  religious  body  or  society  of  men  shall  deem  it  proper  to  in- 
stitute a  professorship  in  the  said  university  for  the  promotion 
of  their  particular  religious  tenets,  or  for  any  other  purpose  not 
inconsistent  with  religion,  morality  and  the  laws  of  this  State, 
and  shall  appropriate  a  fund  for  that  purpose,  not  being  less 
than  two  hundred  bushel  of  wheat  per  annum,  that  the  regents 
of  the  said  university  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  applied  as  the 
donors  shall  direct,  for  the  purposes  above  mentioned,  the  said 
professors  so  to  be  appointed  to  be  subject  to  the  like  rules,  laws 
and  ordinances,  as  other  the  professors  of  the  said  university, 
and  entitled  to  the  like  immunities  and  priviledges. 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the  said 
regents  and  their  successors  forever,  shall  and  may  have  full 
power  and  authority  by  the  chancellor  or  vice  chancellor  of  the 
said  university,  or  any  other  person  or  persons  by  them  author- 
ized or  appointed,  to  give  and  grant  to  any  of  the  students  of 
the  said  university,  or  to  any  person  or  persons  thought  worthy 
thereof  all  such  degrees  as  well  in  divinity,  philosophy,  civil  and 
municipal  laws,  as  in  every  other  art,  science  and  faculty  what- 


CHARTER  OF  1784.  -36 

soever  as  are  or  may  be  conferred  by  all  or  any  of  the  univer- 
sities in  Europe,  and  that  the  chancellor  or  in  his  absence  the 
vice  chancellor  of  the  said  university  for  the  time  being,  do  sign 
and  seal  with  the  seal  of  the  said  corporation  diplomas  or  certifi- 
cates of  such  degrees  having  been  given,  other  than  the  degree 
of  batchelor  of  arts,  which  shall  and  may  be  granted  by  the 
president  of  the  college  in  which  the  person  taking  the  same 
shall  have  been  graduated,  and  the  diploma's  shall  be  signed  by 
the  said  president.  That  the  persons  to  be  elected  fellows  pro- 
fessors or  tutors  as  aforesaid,  be  also  regents  of  the  said  univer- 
sity, ex  officiis  and  capable  of  voting  in  every  case  relative  only 
to  the  respective  colleges  to  which  they  shall  belong,  excepting 
in  such  cases  wherein  they  shall  respectively  be  personally  con- 
cerned or  interested. 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the  col- 
lege within  the  city  of  New  York  heretofore  called  Kings  Col- 
lege, be  forever  here  after  called  and  known  by  the  name  of 
Columbia  College. 


An  Act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  **  An  act  for  granting 
certain  privileges  to  the  college,  heretofore  called  kings 

college:    for  altering  the    name    and  charter    THEREOF,   AND 
ERECTING    AN    UNIVERSITY    WITHIN    THIS   StATE  "  PASSED    THE    1ST 

DAY  OF  May,  1784.  Passed  November  26,  1784. 

Laws  of  1785,  Chapter  15. 

Eecites  tijat,  ^^IVhereas^  it  is  represented  to  the  legislature, 
that  the  dispersed  residences  of  many  of  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity of  this  State,  and  the  largeness  of  the  quorum  who  are 
made  capable  of  business,  the  interest  and  prosperity  of  the  said 
university,  have  been  greatly  obstructed.  And  it  is  also  repre- 
sented, that  certain  doubts  have  arisen  as  to  the  construction  of 
the  act  entitled  '  An  act  for  granting  certain  privileges  to  the 
college  heretofore  called  Kings-college,  for  altering  the  name 
and  charter  thereof  and  erecting  an  university  within  this  State,' 
passed  the  ist  day  of  May,  1784.     For  remedy  whereof."    The 


86  CHARTER  OF  1787. 

act  provides:  "  That  in  addition  to  the  regents  appointed  in  and 
by  the  before  mentioned  act,  the  several  persons  herein  after 
named,  shall  be  and  hereby  respectively  are  constituted  regents 
of  the  said  university  (that  is  to  say):  John  Jay,  Samuel  Pro- 
vost, John  H.  Livingston,  John  Rodgers,  John  Mason,  John 
Ganoe,  John  Daniel  Gros,  Johann  Ch.  Kunze,  Joseph  Delaplain, 
Gershom  Seixas,  Alexander  Hamilton,  John  Laurance,  John 
Rutherford,  Morgan  Lewis,  Leonard  Lispenard,  John  Cochran, 
Charles  McKnight,  Thomas  Jones,  Malachi  Treat  and  Nicholas 
Romain  of  New  York,  Peter  W.  Yates,  Mathew  Vischer,  and 
Heenlock  Woodruf  of  Albany,  George  I.  L.  Doll  of  Ulster, 
John  Vanderbilt  of  Kings,  Thomas  Romain  of  Montgomery, 
Samuel  Buel  of  Suffolk,  Gilbert  Livingston  of  Dutchess,  Nathan 
Kerr  of  Orange,  Ebenezer  Lockwood  of  Westchester,  John 
Lloyd  Jun  of  Queens,  Harmanus  Garrison  of  Richmond  & 
Ebenezer  Russell  of  Washington.  And  that  the  said  respective 
regents,  hereby  constituted,  shall  enjoy  the  same  power  and 
authority,  as  are  granted  to,  and  vested  in  the  other  regents 
appointed  by  the  said  act,  as  fully  and  effectually,  as  if  they  had 
been  therein  expressly  named."  The  act  also  provides  for 
meetings  and  quorums  of  the  regents,  and  authorizes  the 
treasurer  of  the  State  to  advance  the  sum  of  ^^2552  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  university  for  the  use  of  Columbia  College. 


CHARTER  OF  1787. 

An  Act  to  institute  an  university  within  this  State  and 
for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

Passed  April  13,  1787. 
Laws  of  1787,  Chapter  82. 

U^ciUs  tl)flt:  —  ^^ Whereas,  by  two  acts  of  the  legislature  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  the  one  passed  the  first  day  of  May,  and 
the  other  twenty  sixth  day  of  November,  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty  four,  an  university  is  instituted  within  this 
State,  in  the  manner  and  with  the  powers  therein  specified.  And 
whereas  from  the  representation  of  the  regents  of  the  said  uni- 
versity, it  appears  there  are  defects   in  the  constitution  of  the 


CHARTER  OF  1787.  37 

said  university  which  call  for  alterations  and  amendments.  And 
whereas  a  number  of  acts  on  the  same  subject  amending  cor- 
recting and  altering  former  ones,  tend  to  render  the  same  less 
intelligible  and  easily  to  be  understood.  Whereof  to  the  end, 
that  the  constitution  of  the  said  university  may  be  properly 
amended  and  appear  entire  in  one  law,  it  will  be  expedient,  to 
delineate  and  establish  the  same  in  this,  and  repeal  all  former 
acts  relative  thereto."  The  act  provides  for  the  establishment 
of  a  university  to  be  called  and  known  by  the  name  or  style  of 
**The  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York," 
and  creates  the  regents  a  corporation,  with  power  to  visit  and 
inspect  all  the  colleges,  academies  or  schools  which  are  or  may 
be  established  in  the  State,  to  confer  diplomas,  and  to  grant 
charters.  The  act  further  repeals  the  acts  passed  May  ist  and 
November  26th,  1784,  and  provides: 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the 
charter  heretofore  granted  to  the  governors  of  the  college  of  the 
province  of  New- York,  in  the  city  of  New- York,  in  America, 
dated  the  thirty-first  day  of  October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty-four,  shall  be,  and  hereby 
is  fully  and  absolutely  ratified  and  confirmed,  in  all  respects, 
except  that  the  college  thereby  established,  shall  be  henceforth 
called  Columbia  College :  That  the  style  of  the  said  corporation 
shall  be.  The  trustees  of  Columbia  College,  in  the  city  of  New- 
York;  and  that  no  persons  shall  be  trustees  of  the  same,  in 
virtue  of  any  offices,  characters,  or  descriptions  whatever; 
excepting  also  such  clauses  thereof  as  require  the  taking  of  oaths, 
and  subscribing  the  declaration  therein  mentioned;  and  which 
render  a  person  ineligible  to  the  office  of  president  of  the  college, 
on  account  of  his  religious  tenets,  and  prescribe  a  form  of  public 
prayer  to  be  used  in  the  said  college ;  and  also  excepting  the 
clause  thereof  which  provides,  that  the  by-laws  and  ordinances 
to  be  made  in  pursuance  thereof,  should  not  be  repugnant 
to  the  laws  and  statutes  of  that  part  of  the  kingdom  of  Great- 
Britain,  called  England;  except  also,  that  in  all  cases  where 
fifteen  governors  are  required  to  constitute  a  quorum  for  the 
despatch  of  business,  thirteen  trustees  shall  be  sufficient.  Pro- 
vided always,  That  the  by-laws  and  ordinances  to  be  made  by 
the  trustees  of  the  said  Columbia  college,  shall  not  be  contrary 


38  CHARTER  OF  1787. 

to  the  constitution  and  laws  of  this  state.  (Repealed  by  Laws 
of  1810,  Chapter  85.) 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  James 
Duane,  Samuel  Provost,  John  H.  Livingston,  Richard  Varick, 
Alexander  Hamilton,  John  Mason,  James  Wilson,  John  Gano, 
Brockholst  Livingston,  Robert  Harpur,  John  Daniel  Gross, 
Johan  Christoff  Kunze,  Walter  Livingston,  Lewis  A.  Scott, 
Joseph  Delaplaine,  Leonard  Lispenard,  Abraham  Beach,  John 
Lawrance,  John  Rutherford,  Morgan  Lewis,  John  Cochran, 
Gershom  Seixas,  Charles  McKnight,  Thomas  Jones,  Malachi 
Treat,  Samuel  Bard,  Nicholas  Romein,  Benjamin  Kissam,  and 
Ebenezer  Crossby,  shall  be,  and  they  are  hereby  constituted  and 
declared  to  be  the  present  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  in  the 
city  of  New- York,  and  that  when  by  the  death  or  resignation,  or 
removal  of  any  of  the  said  trustees,  the  number  of  those  trustees 
shall  be  reduced  to  twenty-four,  then  and  from  thenceforth  the 
said  twenty-four  trustees  shall  be,  and  they  hereby  are  declared 
and  constituted  trustees  of  the  said  Columbia  college,  in  per- 
petual succession,  according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of 
the  said  charter;  and  all  vacancies  thereafter  shall  be  supplied 
in  the  manner  thereby  directed.  (Repealed  by  Laws  of  18 10, 
Chapter  85.) 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  all  and 
singular  the  power,  authority,  rights,  privileges,  franchises,  and 
immunities,  so  heretofore  granted  to,  and  vested  in  the  said 
governors  of  the  college  of  the  province  of  New- York,  in  the 
city  of  New-York,  in  America,  by  the  said  charter,  excepting  as 
before  excepted,  shall  be,  and  the  same  hereby  are  granted  to 
and  vested  in  the  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  in  the  city  of 
New- York,  and  their  successors  forever,  as  fully  and  effectually, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  if  the  same  were  herein  particu- 
larly specified  and  expressed ;  and  all  and  singular  the  lands, 
tenements,  hereditaments,  and  real  estate,  goods,  chattels,  rents, 
annuities,  moneys,  books,  and  other  property,  whereof  the  said 
governors  of  the  college  of  the  province  of  New- York,  in  the 
city  of  New-York,  in  America,  were  seised,  possessed,  or  entitled, 
under  and  in  virtue  of  the  said  charter,  or  with  which  the 
regents  of  the  said  university  were  invested,  under  or  by  virtue 
of  the  said  acts,  for  the  use  or  benefit  of  the  said  Columbia  col- 


CHARTER  OF  lySy.  39 

lege,  shall  be,  and  the  same  hereby  are  granted  to  and  vested  in 
the  said  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  in  the  city  of  New- York, 
and  their  successors  forever,  for  the  sole  use  and  benefit  of  the 
said  college ;  and  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  to  and  for  the  said 
trustees,  and  their  successors,  to  grant,  bargain,  sell,  demise, 
improve,  and  dispose  of  the  same,  as  to  them  shall  seem  meet. 
Provided,  always.  That  the  lands  given  and  granted  to  the 
governors  of  the  college  of  the  province  of  New- York,  in  the 
city  of  New-York,  in  America,  by  the  corporation  heretofore 
styled.  The  rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  city  of  New- York,  in 
communion  of  the  church  of  England,  as  by  law  established,  on 
part  whereof  the  said  college  is  erected,  shall  not  be  granted 
for  any  greater  estate,  or  in  any  other  manner,  than  is  limited 
by  the  said  charter.     (Repealed  by  Laws  of  1810,  Chapter  85.) 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  when 
any  special  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  the  said  college  shall  be 
deemed  necessary,  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  to  and  for  the 
senior  trustee  of  the  said  college,  then  in  the  city  of  New- York, 
and  taking  upon  himself  the  exercise  of  his  office,  (which  senior- 
ity shall  be  determined  according  to  the  order  in  which  the  said 
trustees  are  named  in  this  act,  and  shall  be  elected  hereafter,) 
and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and  required,  on  application  for 
that  purpose  in  writing  under  the  hands  of  any  five  or  more  of 
the  said  trustees,  to  appoint  a  time  for  such  special  meeting,  in 
some  convenient  place  within  the  said  city,  and  to  cause  due 
notice  thereof  to  be  given  in  the  manner  directed  by  the  said 
charter.     (Repealed  by  Laws  of  1810,  Chapter  85.) 

And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid^  That  the  act, 
entitled.  An  act  for  granting  certain  privileges  to  the  college 
heretofore  called  King's  college,  for  altering  the  name  and 
charter  thereof,  and  erecting  a  university  within  this  state, 
passed  the  ist  day  of  May,  1784;  and  the  act,  entitled.  An  act  to 
amend  an  act,  entitled.  An  act  for  granting  certain  privileges 
to  the  college  heretofore  called  King's  college,  for  altering  the 
name  and  charter  thereof,  and  erecting  an  university  within 
this  state,  passed  the  26th  day  of  November,  1784,  be,  and  they 
are  hereby  severally  repealed. 


40  STA  TUTES. 

An  Act  to  encourage  Literature,  by  Donations  to 
Columbia  College,  and  to  the  several  Academies  in  the 
State.  Passed  April  ii,   1792. 

Laws  of  1792,  Chapter  69. 

tX)l)ereas  it  has  been  represented  to  the  legislature,  that  the 
funds  of  Columbia  college,  in  this  state,  have,  in  consequence  of 
events  which  took  place  during  the  late  war,  been  so  far  dimin- 
ished, as  to  render  it  impracticable  for  the  trustees  to  defray 
certain  necessary  expenses  which  have  accrued  to  the  college  in 
consequence  of  the  alterations  in  the  streets  of  the  city  of  New 
York,  and  to  repair  the  losses  which  the  college  sustained  during 
the  late  war,  with  respect  to  its  library,  and  to  incur  such  fur- 
ther expenses  as  would  render  the  seminary  more  extensively 
useful,  without  pecuniary  aid  from  the  legislature :  For  remedy 
whereof. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented 
in  Senate  and  Assembly^  That  there  shall  be  allowed  and  paid  to 
the  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  or  their  order,  for  the  use  of 
the  institution,  the  sum  of  fifteen  hundred  pounds,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  enlarging  its  library,  and  the  sum  of  two  hundred  pounds 
for  a  chemical  apparatus;  and  the  sum  of  twelve  hundred 
pounds  for  the  purpose  of  building  a  wall,  necessary  to  support 
the  grounds  of  the  college,  and  the  further  sum  of  five  thousand 
pounds  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  hall  and  an  additional  wing 
to  the  college,  pursuant  to  the  original  plan  of  the  institution ; 
and  the  treasurer  is  hereby  authorized  to  pay  the  said  respective 
sums  out  of  such  moneys  as  may  be  or  may  come  into  the 
treasury,  of  the  annual  revenue  of  the  State,  and  which  may  not 
be  appropriated  for  the  purpose  of  supporting  government,  or 
satisfying  claims  against  the  State,  or  for  compleating  the  sum  of 
two  hundred  thousand  pounds  to  be  loaned  in  the  several  coun- 
ties of  this  state,  by  virtue  of  the  act,  entitled,  **  An  act  for 
loaning  moneys  belonging  to  the  State." 

(Clause  two,  omitted.) 

And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  treasurer  shall  annually, 
for  five  years,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  legislature,  pay 
to  the  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  or  their  order,  out  of  the 
like  moneys  as  above  described,  the  sum  of  seven  hundred  and 


STA  TUTES.  41 


fifty  pounds,  to  be  applied  to  the  payment  of  the  salaries  of  such 
additional  professors  in  the  said  college,  as  the  said  trustees  shall 
think  proper  to  appoint. 


An  Act  for  the  payment  of  certain  officers  of  govern- 
ment   AND   OTHER   CONTINGENT   EXPENSES. 

Passed  April  ii,   1796. 
Laws  of  1796,   Chap.   57. 

^fter  |)rot)iMn0  for  payments  to  various  State  officers  the  act 
continues  the  grant  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  per 
annum,  for  two  years,  to  Columbia  College  for  the  salaries  of 
professors. 


An  Act  respecting  Union  College,  and  for  the  purposes 

THEREIN    mentioned.  PaSSED    MarCH    30,     1 797. 

Laws  of  1797,  Chap.   65. 

8ri)e  %ti  confers  certain  powers  upon  the  Trustees  of  Union 
College,  and  appropriates  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  there- 
for, and  grants  five  hundred  dollars  to  Columbia  College  for 
the  preservation  of  the  anatomical  museum,  and  the  care  thereof. 


An  Act  to  amend  the  Act,  entitled,  **  An  Act  for  the 
Encouragement  of  Literature." 

Passed  April  3,   1802. 
Laws  of  1802,  Chapter  105. 

tX)t)£r^a0  it  appears,  from  a  report  of  the  surveyor-general, 
that  the  grant  of  a  certain  tract  of  land  in  the  county  of  Wash- 
ington, adjoining  the  south  end  of  Lake  George,  to  the  regents 
of  the  university,  in  and  by  the  act,  entitled,  "  An  act  for  the 


43  CHARTER    OF  i8zo. 

further  encouragement  of  literature,"  interferes  with  the  bounds 
of  lands  previously  granted ;  and  the  regents  having  prayed  for 
a  grant  of  other  lands  adjoining  the  same,  and  in  lieu  thereof, 
to  enable  them  the  more  effectually  to  fulfil  the  purposes  for 
which  the  grant  of  those  lands  was  intended :  Therefore, 

I.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New-  York^  represented 
in  Senate  and  Assefjibly^  That  the  said  regents  of  the  university, 
and  their  successors,  shall  be  and  hereby  are  vested  with  the  seisin 
and  possession  of  the  lands  hereafter  described,  belonging  to  the 
people  of  this  state ;  that  is  to  say,  a  certain  tract  of  land  in  the 
county  of  Washington,  adjoining  the  south  end  of  Lake  George, 
beginning  on  the  east  shore  of  the  said  lake,  where  the  westerly 
bounds  of  a  tract  of  two  thousand  acres,  granted  by  letters 
patent  to  William  Houghton,  strikes  the  same,  and  running 
thence  along  the  said  Houghton's  tract  southerly  and  westerly 
to  the  northwest  corner  thereof,  then  with  a  straight  line  to  the 
most  westerly  corner  of  a  tract  of  two  hundred  acres  granted  by 
letters  patent  to  John  Jones,  then  along  the  southerly  bounds 
thereof,  to  Lake  George,  and  then  along  the  same  southerly, 
easterly,  and  northerly,  to  the  place  of  beginning,  containing 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  twenty-four  acres  of  land ;  and 
the  former  grant  to  the  said  regents,  so  far  as  the  same  included 
lands  not  herein  described,  shall  be  void. 

n.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said 
regents  to  grant  and  convey  to  the  trustees  of  Columbia  and 
Union  colleges,  and  their  successors,  the  lands  above  described, 
together  with  the  lands  at  Ticonderoga  and  Crown  Point 
already  vested  in  the  said  regents,  in  such  proportions  as  they 
shall  deem  just  and  reasonable,  for  the  use  of  the  said  colleges 
respectively. 


CHARTER  OF  1810. 

An  Act  relative    to    Columbia    College    in    the  city  of 
New-York.  Passed  March  23,   1810. 

Laws  of  1810,  Chapter  85. 

tol)ereas  tl)e  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  in  the  city  of  New- 
York,  have  represented,  that  sundry  impediments  to  their  trust, 


CHARTER  OF  1810.  48 

and  to  the  interest  of  literature  in  the  college,  are  found  by 
experience  from  certain  restrictions  and  defects  in  their  charter, 
and  have  prayed  relief,  and  that  their  charter,  when  amended, 
may  be  comprised  in  one  act :  Therefore, 

I.  BE  //  enacted  by  the  people  of  the  State  of  New-  York^  represented 
t?i  Septate  and  Assembly^  That  John  H.  Livingston,  Richard  Varick, 
Brockholst  Livingston,  Abraham  Beach,  John  Lawrence,  Ger- 
shom  Seixas,  Richard  Harison,  John  Watts,  William  Moor, 
Cornelius  I.  Bogart,  John  M.  Mason,  Edward  Dunscomb,  George 
C.  Anthon,  John  N.  Abeel,  James  Tillary,  John  H.  Hobart, 
Benjamin  Moore,  Egbert  Benson,  Governeur  Morris,  Jacob 
Radcliff,  Rufus  King,  Samuel  Miller,  Oliver  Wolcott,  and  John 
B.  Romeyn,  the  present  trustees  of  the  said  college,  and  their 
successors,  shall  be  and  remain  for  ever  here  after,  a  body  politic 
and  corporate,  in  fact  and  in  name,  by  the  name  of  "  The  Trus- 
tees of  Columbia  College  in  the  city  of  New- York,"  and  by  that 
name  shall  and  may  have  continual  succession  for  ever  hereafter, 
and  shall  be  able  in  law  to  sue  and  be  sued,  implead  and  be 
impleaded,  answer  and  be  answered  unto,  defend  and  be 
defended,  in  all  courts  and  places  whatsoever,  and  may  have  a 
common  seal,  and  may  change  and  alter  the  same  at  their 
pleasure,  and  also,  shall  be  able  in  law  to  take  by  purchase,  gift, 
grant,  devise,  or  in  any  other  manner,  and  to  hold  any  real  and 
personal  estate  whatsoever;  Provided  always,  The  clear  yearly 
value  of  the  real  estate  to  be  so  acquired,  shall  not  exceed  the 
sum  of  twenty  thousand  dollars;  and  also  that  they  and  their 
successors  shall  have  power  to  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell,  demise 
or  otherwise  dispose  of,  all  or  any  part  of  the  said  real  and  per- 
sonal estate,  as  to  them  shall  seem  best  for  the  interest  of  the 
said  college.      (See  Amendment,  Laws  of  1884,  Chapter  65.) 

n.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  trustees,  and  their 
successors,  shall  forever  hereafter  have  full  power  and  authority 
to  direct  and  prescribe  the  course  of  study,  and  the  discipline 
to  be  observed  in  the  said  college,  and  also  to  select  and  appoint 
by  ballot  or  otherwise,  a  president  of  the  said  college,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  during  good  behaviour  ;  and  such  professor  or 
professors,  tutor  or  tutors  to  assist  the  president  in  the  govern- 
ment and  education  of  the  students  belonging  to  the  said  college, 
and  such  other  officer  or   officers,  as  to  the  said  trustees  shall 


44  CHARTER  OF  1810. 

seem  meet,  all  of  whom  shall  hold  their  offices  during  the  pleas- 
ure of  the  trustees:  Provided  always^  That  no  such  professor, 
tutor,  or  other  assistant  officer  shall  be  trustee. 

III.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  if  complaint  shall  be  made 
in  writing  to  the  said  trustees,  or  their  successors,  by  any  mem- 
ber of  the  said  corporation  of  any  misbehaviour  in  office  by  the 
president,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said  trustees,  or  their  succes- 
sors, from  time  to  time,  upon  examination,  and  such  due  proof 
of  misbehaviour,  to  suspend  or  discharge  such  president,  and  to 
appoint  another  in  his  place. 

IV.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  eleven  of  the  said  trustees, 
lawfully  convened,  as  is  hereinafter  directed,  shall  be  a  quorum 
for  the  despatch  of  all  business,  except  for  the  disposal  of  real 
estate,  or  for  the  choice  or  removal  of  a  president,  for  either  of 
which  purposes  there  shall  be  a  meeting  of  at  least  thirteen 
trustees. 

V.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  said  trustees  shall  have 
full  power  and  authority  to  elect  by  ballot  their  own  chair- 
man once  in  every  year,  or  at  such  other  periods  as  they  shall 
prefer. 

VI.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  said  trustees  shall 
also  have  power,  by  a  majority  of  votes  of  the  members  present, 
to  elect  and  appoint,  upon  the  death,  removal  out  of  the  state, 
or  other  vacancy  of  the  place  or  places  of  any  trustee  or  trustees, 
other  or  others,  in  his  or  their  places  or  stead  as  often  as  such 
vacancy  shall  happen ;  and  also  to  make  and  declare  vacant  the 
seat  of  any  trustee  who  shall  absent  himself  from  five  successive 
meetings  of  the  board ;  and  also  to  meet  upon  their  own  adjourn- 
ment, and  so  often  as  they  shall  be  summoned  by  their  chair- 
man, or  in  his  absence  by  the  senior  trustee;  whose  seniority 
shall  be  accounted  according  to  the  order  in  which  the  said  trus- 
tees are  named  in  this  act,  and  shall  be  elected  hereafter;  Pro- 
vided always^  That  the  said  chairman  or  senior  trustee  shall  not 
summon  a  meeting  of  the  corporation  unless  required  thereto 
in  writing  by  three  of  the  members ;  And  provided  also,  That  he 
cause  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  the  said  meeting  to  be 
given  in  one  or  more  of  the  public  newspapers  printed  in  the 
City  of  New-York,  at  least  three  days  before  such  meeting:  and 
that  every  member  of  the  corporation  resident  in  the  city  shall 


CHARTER  OF  1810.  46 

be  previously  advertised    in  writing   of  the  time  and   place  of 
every  such  meeting. 

VII.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  said  trustees  and  their 
successors,  shall  have  power  and  authority  to  grant  all  such 
literary  honors  and  degrees,  as  are  usually  granted  by  any  uni- 
versity, college,  or  seminary  of  learning  in  this  state,  or  in  the 
United  States ;  and  in  testimony  of  such  grant  to  give  suitable 
diplomas  under  their  seal,  and  the  signatures  of  the  president 
and  such  professors,  or  tutors  of  the  college,  as  they  shall  judge 
expedient;  which  diplomas  shall  entitle  the  possessors  respect- 
ively to  all  the  immunities  and  privileges  which  either  by  usage 
or  statute  are  allowed  to  possessors  of  similar  diplomas  from 
any  university,  college,  or  seminary  of  learning. 

VIII.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  said  trustees,  and 
their  successors,  shall  have  full  power  and  authority  to  make  all 
ordinances  and  bye-laws  which  to  them  shall  seem  expedient  for 
carrying  into  effect  the  designs  of  their  institution ;  Provided 
always^  That  such  ordinances  or  bye-laws  shall  not  make  the 
religious  tenets  of  any  person  a  condition  of  admission  to  any 
privilege  or  office  in  the  said  college,  nor  be  inconsistent  with 
the  constitution  and  laws  of  this  state,  nor  with  the  constitution 
and  laws  of  the  United  States. 

IX.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  all  the  real  and  personal 
estate  whatsoever  and  wheresoever,  which  were  formerly  vested 
in  the  governors  of  the  college  of  the  province  of  New- York,  in 
the  city  of  New-York,  in  America,  or  in  the  trustees  of  Colum- 
bia college  in  the  city  of  New- York,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
confirmed  to  and  vested  in  the  said  trustees  of  Columbia  college 
in  the  city  of  New- York,  and  their  successors  for  ever,  for  the 
sole  use  and  benefit  of  the  said  college;  and  that  it  shall  and  may 
be  lawful  to  and  for  the  said  trustees,  and  their  successors,  to 
grant,  bargain,  sell,  demise,  improve  and  dispose  of  the  same, 
as  to  them  shall  seem  meet;  Provided  always^  That  the  lands  given 
land  granted  to  the  governors  of  the  college  of  the  province  of 
New- York,  in  the  city  of  New- York,  in  America,  by  the  corpora- 
tion heretofore  styled,  '*  The  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  city 
of  New-York,  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England,  as  by 
law  established,"  on   part  whereof  the  said  college  is  erected. 


46  STA  TUTES. 

shall  not  be  granted  for  any  greater  term  of  time  than   sixty- 
three  years.     (See  Amendment,  Laws  of  1852,  Chapter  310.) 

X.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  eighth,  ninth,  tenth,  and 
eleventh  sections  of  the  act,  entitled,  "  an  act  to  institute  an 
university  within  this  state,  and  for  other  purposes  therein  men- 
tioned," passed  the  thirteenth  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-seven,  be  and  the 
same  are  hereby  repealed. 


An  Act  to  render  the  Provoost  of  Columbia  College, 
IN  the  City  of  New-York,  eligible  to  be  a  Trustee 
thereof:  Passed  February  14,  18 12. 

Laws  of  1812,  Chapter  6. 

tol)ereas,  tlje  trtlStees  of  Columbia  college  have,  by  their  peti- 
tion, prayed  that  the  Provoost  of  the  said  college  may  be  made 
eligible  as  a  Trustee  of  said  College : 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New-  York^  represented 
in  Senate  and  Assembly^  That  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the 
Provoost  of  Columbia  College,  in  the  city  of  New- York,  for  the 
time  being,  to  be  elected  and  act  as  a  trustee  of  the  said  college, 
any  thing  contained  in  the  act,  entitled,  '*  an  act  relative  to 
Columbia  College  in  the  city  of  New- York,"  or  in  any  other  act 
or  charter  of  the  said  college,  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 


PETITION   TO   THE    LEGISLATURE. 

To  THE  Honourable  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New 
York  in  Senate  and  Assembly  convened: 

®[)e  inemorial  and  Petition  of  the  Trustees  of  Columbia 
College  in  the  City  of  New  York,  Respectfully  Sheweth: 

QTIjat  2<Jltt  iHctnorialistS  have  occupied  themselves  with  great 
solicitude,  &  as  they  believe,  not  without  happy  effect,  in  im- 
proving the  education  of  youth  who  resort  to  the  Seminary 
under  their  Care,  They  deem  it  neither  arrogant  in  themselves, 
nor  disrespectful  to  others,  to  declare  their  firm  conviction, 
justified,  as  they  suppose,  by  indisputable  facts,  that  the  whole 
Instruction  to  be  acquired  in  Columbia  College  will  not  suffer  in 
Comparison  with  that  of  any  other  american  Colleges  in  its 
present  state,  which  they  consider  as  an  earnest  of  what  they 
may  expect  it  will  shortly  become.  But  as  the  reasonable  antici- 
pations of  your  Memorialists  are  founded  in  no  small  degree 
upon  an  increase  of  their  pecuniary  means,  they  address  them- 
selves with  frankness  &  confidence  to  your  honorable  body  for 
such  aid  as  shall  enable  them  most  efficiently  to  cherish  the  high 
&  important  Interests  committed  to  their  charge. 

Situated  in  the  most  important  City  of  the  State,  an  Object  of 
Curiosity  &  Remark  to  Strangers ;  &  indispensable  in  its  posi- 
tion, to  a  large  portion  of  the  Students  who  must  obtain  a  liberal 
Education  on  the  spot,  or  be  deprived  of  it  altogether,  Columbia 
College  presents  a  Spectacle  mortifying  to  its  friends,  humiliat- 
ing to  the  City,  and  calculated  to  inspire  opinions  which  it  is 
impossible  your  enlightened  body  would  wish  to  countenance. 

The  foundation  of  a  new  wing  to  the  Edifice,  laid  by  the  order 
&  under  an  Appropriation  of  your  honorable  body,  has  been  for 
Years,  a  heap  of  ruins  solely  for  want  of  further  public  Assist- 
ance. 

The  Library  of  the  College,  which  fell  a  sacrifice  to  the  war 
of  independence,  has  never  been  replaced  but  in  so  slender  a 
degree  as  to  make  it  a  subject  of  ignominious  Comparison  with 
the  pre-eminence,  in  this  Respect  of  other  american  Colleges. 

The  Philosophical  Apparatus  originally  good,  has  been  dam- 

47 


48  MEMORIAL. 

aged  by  long  use,  &  unavoidable  Accident,  and  is  now  incom- 
petent to  the  advanced  State  of  physical  Science. 

There  is  no  proper  Apartment  for  the  Reception  of  a  decent 
Library.  There  is  no  Hall  fit  for  the  Performance  of  public 
Exercises.  There  is  no  astronomical  Observatory  which  is  of 
essential  moment  both  to  our  commercial  and  military  marine: 
a  solid  basis  for  such  a  Structure  was  laid  at  the  same  time 
with  the  foundation  of  the  new  wing  and  left  unfinished  for  the 
same  Cause. 

gottr  ittetttorialists  are  under  the  necessity  of  exacting,  in  two 
Instances  the  Labors  of  two  Professorships  from  one  Person, 
which  renders  the  toil  unreasonable  and  oppressive.  They  have 
found  it  due  to  the  State  of  Science  &  and  to  public  Opinion  to 
institute  a  Professorship  of  Chemistry  as  a  part  of  the  academ- 
ical Course,  and  have  appointed  a  Professor  without  being  able 
to  give  him  any  Compensation.  They  cannot  employ  Tutors  to 
assist  the  Professors,  an  expedient  found  to  be  of  eminent 
Utility  in  other  Colleges.  They  cannot  afford  gratuitous  Educa- 
tion to  youth  whose  humble  Circumstances  debar  them  from  its 
advantages,  while  their  Talents  and  Virtues  might  render  them 
Ornaments  &  blessings  to  their  Country.  They  cannot  erect 
buildings  suitable  for  the  Accommodation  of  the  Students 
during  the  hours  of  Study,  from  which  Circumstance  much 
time  is  lost  &  injury  sustained. 

All  these  Difficulties  &  Embarrassments  proceed  solely  from 
the  Scantiness  of  their  funds. 

^0ttr  ittientoriaUstS  flatter  themselves  that  no  literary  Institu- 
tion in  the  State  can  offer  to  the  contemplation  of  your  honor- 
able Body  a  case  more  fully  entitled  to  legislative  Sympathy 
and  Succour. 

^otir  inetttorialists  are  emboldened  to  hope  that  their  Appeal 
to  the  magnanimity  of  your  honorable  Body  will  not  be  fruitless, 
especially  when  in  addition  to  the  preceding  View,  they  respect- 
fully add 

I.  That  the  patronage  which  Columbia  College  has  received 
for  a  period  of  Thirty  Years  has  been  very  limited  &  has  not  in 
the  Aggregate  amounted  (if  your  Memorialists  are  correctly 
informed)  to  one  fifth  part  of  the  benefactions  made  with  the 
most  praise  worthy  Munificence  to  a  Kindred  Institution. 


STA  TUTES.  49 

2.  That  Columbia  College  was  once  in  possession  of  landed 
property,*  which  if  she  still  retained  it,  would  be  amply  sufficient 
for  her  wants,  &  would  save  your  Memorialists  from  the  afflict- 
ing necessity  of  importuning  your  honorable  body.  That  prop- 
erty was  transferred  by  the  State  of  New  York,  on  great  political 
Considerations  to  other  hands.  It  was  entirely  lost  to  the  Col- 
lege, and  no  Relief,  under  the  privations  which  the  loss  occa- 
sioned, has  hitherto  been  extended  to  her. 

.  2^tir  iH^lttorialietS  therefore  pray  that  your  honorable  body 
will  take  the  Premises  into  favorable  Consideration,  &  grant  such 
assistance  therein  as  to  your  wisdom  shall  seem  meet. 

March  7,  1814. 

Richard  Varick,  Chairman. 


An  Act  instituting  a  Lottery  for  the  promotion  of  Lit- 
erature,   AND   for  other  PURPOSES. 

Passed  April  13,  1814. 
Laws  of  1814,  Chapter  120. 

Bmtes  tl) at  **  Whereas  well  regulated  seminaries  of  learning 
are  of  immense  importance  to  every  country,  and  tend  especially, 
by  the  diffusion  of  science  and  the  promotion  of  morals,  to  defend 
and  perpetuate  the  liberties  of  a  free  state,"  and  provides  for  a 
lottery,  the  proceeds  of  which  shall  be  paid  to  Union  College, 
Hamilton  College,  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and 
the  Asbury  African  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York.  The  Act 
further  provides : 

VL  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  all  the  right,  title,  and  inter- 
est of  the  people  of  this  state  in  and  to  all  that  certain  piece  or 
parcel  of  land,  with  the  appurtenances,  situate  in  the  ninth  ward 
of  the  city  of  New-York,  known  by  the  name  of  the  Botanic 
Garden,  and  lately  conveyed  to  the  people  of  this  state  by  David 
Hosack,  with  the  appurtenances,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
granted  to  and  vested  in  the  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  in  the 
city  of  New- York,  their  successors  and  assigns ;  but  this  grant 
is  made  upon  the  express  condition,  that  the  college  establish- 

*  See  Letters  Patent,  page  70. 


so  STA  TUTMS. 

ment  shall  be  removed  to  the  said  tract  of  land  hereby  granted, 
or  to  lands  adjacent  thereto,  within  twelve  years  from  this  time; 
and  if  the  said  establishment  shall  not  be  so  removed  within  the 
time  above  limited,  then  and  from  thenceforth,  this  grant  shall 
cease  and  be  void,  and  the  premises  hereby  granted  shall  there- 
upon revert  to  the  people  of  this  state.  (For  Amendment,  See 
Laws  1819,  Chapter  19.) 

VII.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  trustees  of  Columbia 
college  shall,  within  three  months  from  the  time  of  the  passage 
of  this  act,  transmit  to  the  trustees  of  each  of  the  other  colleges 
in  this  state,  a  list  of  the  different  kinds  of  plants,  flowers,  and 
shrubs  in  said  garden ;  and  within  one  year  thereafter,  the  said 
trustees  of  Columbia  college,  shall  deliver  at  the  said  garden,  if 
required,  at  least  one  healthy  exotic  flower,  shrub,  or  plant  of 
each  kind,  of  which  they  shall  have  more  than  one  at  the  time  of 
application,  together  with  the  jar  or  vessel  containing  the  same, 
to  the  trustees  of  each  of  the  other  colleges  of  this  state,  who 
shall  apply  therefor.      (Repealed  by  Laws  181 9,  Chapter  19.) 


An  Act  relative  to  Columbia  College,  in  the  City  of 
New- York.  Passed  February  19,  18 19. 

Laws  of  1819,  Chapter  19. 

i]Ot)er^a0f  it  is  of  the  first  importance  in  a  free  state,  that 
seminaries  of  learning  should  be  carefully  protected,  and,  from 
time  to  time,  receive  the  fostering  aid  of  the  legislature :  And 
whereas^  with  these  views,  all  the  righ  t,  title  and  interest  of  the 
people  of  this  state  in  a  certain  piece  or  parcel  of  land,  situate 
in  the  ninth  ward  of  the  city  of  New- York,  called  **  The  Botanic 
Garden,"  was  in  and  by  an  act  of  the  legislature,  entitled  "  an 
act  instituting  a  lottery  for  the  promotion  of  literature,  and  for 
other  purposes,"  passed  April  13th,  1814,  given  and  granted  to 
Columbia  College,  subject  to  certain  conditions  therein  specified: 
And  whereas  the  said  grant  has  not  been  productive  of  the  bene- 
fits intended  by  the  said  act :  Therefore, 

I.   BE  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New-  Yorh,  rep- 


STA  TUTES.  51 

resented  in  Senate  and  Assembly^  That  that  part  of  the  sixth 
section  of  the  act,  entitled,  "an  act  instituting  a  lottery  for  the 
promotion  of  literature,  and  for  other  purposes,"  passed  April 
13th,  1 8 14,  which  contains  a  condition  to  the  grant  made  to 
the  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  that  the  college  establishment 
shall  be  removed  to  the  tract  of  land  thereby  granted,  or  to  the 
lands  adjacent  thereto,  and  the  seventh  section  of  the  said  act, 
be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

II.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the  sum  of  ten  thousand 
dollars  be  paid  by  the  treasurer,  on  the  warrant  of  the  comp- 
troller, to  the  trustees  of  Columbia  College,  out  of  any  moneys 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  applied  by  the  said  trustees  as 
the  interests  of  the  said  college  may  require. 


53  STA  TUTES. 

An  Act  to  amend  an  act,  entitled  '*  An  Act  relative  to 
Columbia  College,  in  the  city  of  New-York,"  passed  March 
23,  1810.  Passed  April  15,  1852. 

Laws  of  1852,  Chapter  310. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 
§  I.  ®l)e  ninti)  section  of  the  act  entitled,  '*  An  act  relative  to 
Columbia  College,  in  the  city  of  New-York,"  passed  March 
23d,  eighteen  hundred  and  ten,  is  hereby  amended,  by  adding 
at  the  end  of  said  section  the  following  words:  "unless  the 
consent  of  said  grantors  in  writing,  under  their  corporate  seal, 
shall  be  first  had  and  obtained  to  the  disposal  thereof,  free  from 
such  restriction." 


An  Act  to  authorize  the  Trustees  of  Columbia  College, 
IN  THE  City  of  New  York,  to  take  and  hold  certain  real 
ESTATE.  Passed  March  19,  1857. 

Laws  of  1857,  Chapter  132. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  the  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows : 

§  L  Q[l)e  QTrnstees  of  Columbia  College,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  are  hereby  authorized  to  purchase  and  take,  and  to  hold 
in  fee  simple,  and  dispose  of  a  certain  parcel  of  land,  situated 
in  the  Nineteenth  Ward  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  bounded 
northerly  by  the  southerly  side  of  Fiftieth  Street,  southerly  by 
the  northerly  side  of  Forty-ninth  Street,  easterly  by  a  line  par- 
allel with  and  one  hundred  feet  distant  westerly  from  the  west- 
erly side  of  the  Fourth  Avenue,  and  westerly  by  a  line  parallel 
with  and  five  hundred  feet  distant  easterly  from  the  easterly 
side  of  Fifth  Avenue,  or  any  part  or  parts  thereof,  and  dispose 
of  the  proceeds  for  the  use  and  purposes  of  said  college. 

§  IL   This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


STA  TUTES.  53 

An  Act  to  Authorize  the  Trustees  of  Columbia  College, 
IN  THE  City  of  New  York,  to  take  and  hold  certain  real 
estate.  Passed  March  2,  i860. 

Laws  of  i860,  Chapter  51. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 
§  I.  ®l)e  ®rtl0tees  of  Columbia  College  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  are  hereby  authorized  to  purchase,  and  take  and  to  hold 
in  fee  simple  and  dispose  of  such  land,  in  addition  to  that  which 
they  were  authorized  to  take  and  hold  under  the  act  entitled 
**  An  Act  to  Authorize  the  Trustees  of  Columbia  College,  in  the 
City  of  New  York  to  take  and  hold  certain  real  estate  "  passed 
March  nineteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty  seven,  as  shall  be 
situated  in  the  City  of  New  York,  and  shall,  together  with  the 
land  taken  and  held  under  the  said  act,  be  comprehended 
within  the  following  bounds,  to  wit:  the  southerly  side  of 
Fiftieth  Street,  the  westerly  side  of  the  Fourth  Avenue,  the 
Northerly  side  of  Forty-ninth  Street,  and  a  line  drawn  parallel 
with  Fourth  Avenue  and  distant  four  hundred  and  fifty  feet 
Westerly  therefrom,  or  any  part  or  parts  thereof. 


An  Act  relative  to  the  law  school  of  Columbia  College. 

Passed  April  7,  i860. 
Laws  of  i860.  Chapter  202. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly,  do  enact  as  follo^vs  : 
Section  1.  The  professors  in  the  Law  School  of  Columbia 
College,  and  the  law  committee  of  the  Trustees  of  said  College, 
viz. :  Samuel  B.  Ruggles,  Hamilton  Fish,  Alexander  W.  Brad- 
ford, Gouverneur  M.  Ogden,  George  T.  Strong  and  William 
Betts,  and  such  persons  as  shall  from  time  to  time  form  such  law 
committee,  any  three  of  whom,  being  counsellors  at  law,  shall 
form  a  quorum  upon  whose  examination  and  recommendation,  as 
evidenced  by  the  diploma  of  said  College  granted  upon  such 
recommendation,    any    graduate   of  said   law   school  shall  be 


54  STA  TUTES. 

admitted  to  practice  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law  in  all 
the  courts  of  this  state.  No  diploma  shall  be  sufficient  for  such 
admission  which  is  given  for  any  period  of  attendance  upon  said 
law  school  for  a  less  term  than  eighteen  months,  but  this  period 
of  eighteen  months  shall  not  apply  to  the  members  of  the  pres- 
ent senior  class  in  said  law  school  who  may  be  admitted  to 
practice  as  aforesaid  upon  the  examination  and  recommendation 
of  said  committee,  and  upon  the  evidence  of  the  diploma  of  the 
college. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  act 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Note. — Laws  of  1877,  Chapter  417,  Section  i,  sub-division  34,  repeals  so 
much  of  the  foregoing  act  as  requires  the  g^raduates  therein  specified  to  be  ad- 
mitted to  practice  upon  the  production  of  their  diplomas;  but  Section  3,  sub- 
division 17  of  the  same  act  provides  that  such  repeal  shall  not  affect  the  right 
of  a  person  who  is  a  student  to  be  admitted  at  any  time  within  one  year  after  the 
passage  of  the  repealing  act.  The  period  of  exemption  was  further  extended  by 
the  Laws  of  1879,  Chap.  35;  Chap.  257;  and  Chap.  349;  Laws  of  1880,  Chap.  58; 
and  Laws  of  1881,  Chap.  25. 


An  Act  in  relation  to  Columbia  College,  in  the  City  of 
New  York:  Passed  March  8,  1872. 

Laws  1872,  Chapter  96. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The  trustees  of  Columbia  College,  in  the  City  of 
New  York,  are  hereby  authorized,  from  time  to  time,  to  pur- 
chase and  take  and  hold  in  fee  simple,  any  lands  situate  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  for  a  new  site  or  sites  for  the  said  college  or 
for  any  of  the  schools  or  necessary  buildings  of  the  same,  and 
to  sell  and  convey  any  lands  now  held  by  said  college,  but  no 
lands  owned  by  said  college  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation, 
except  such  as  are  or  may  be  in  actual  use  as  a  site  or  sites 
for  said  college. 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


STA  TUTES.  65 

An  Act  in  relation  to  Columbia  College  in  the  City  of 
New  York.  Passed  March  28,  1884. 

Laws  of  1884,  Chapter  65. 

The  People  of  the   State  of  New    York,   represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

0ecti0n  1.  The  Trustees  of  Columbia  College  in  the  City  of 
New  York  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  take  by 
purchase,  gift,  grant,  devise  or  any  other  manner,  and  to  hold 
any  real  estate  which,  when  acquired,  shall  be  used  for,  or  the 
income  thereof  shall  be  applied  to,  the  proper  conduct  and  sup- 
port of  the  several  departments  of  education  heretofore  estab- 
lished or  hereafter  to  be  established  by  such  Trustees ;  and  so 
much  of  the  proviso  in  the  first  section  of  the  act  entitled 
'*  An  Act  relative  to  Columbia  College  in  the  City  of  New  York," 
passed  March  24,  1810,  as  limits  the  clear  yearly  value  of  the 
real  estate  to  be  acquired  by  said  Trustees  to  the  sum  of  twenty 
thousand  dollars,  is  hereby  repealed;  provided,  however,  that 
no  lands  owned  by  said  college  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation, 
except  such  as  are  or  may  be  in  actual  use  as  a  site  or  sites  for 
said  college ;  and  provided  further,  that  all  devises  and  bequests 
to  said  Trustees  shall  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  chapter 
three  hundred  and  sixty  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty,  entitled  "An  act  relating  to  wills."  And  provided 
further  that  this  act  shall  not  be  construed  so  as  to  affect  any 
devise  made  by  any  testator  who  shall  have  died  before  its 
passage,  nor  the  right  of  any  heir  at  law  or  next  of  kin  of  such 
testator. 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


56  STA  TUTES. 

An  Act  to  provide  for   the   establishment  of  a  botanic 

GARDEN  AND  MUSEUM  AND  ARBORETUM,  IN  BrONX  PaRK  IN  THE 

City   of   New   York,    and   to   incorporate   the    New   York 
Botanical  Garden  for  carrying  on  the  same. 

Passed  April  28,  1891. 

Laws  of  1891,  Chapter  285. 

The  People  of  the   State  of  New   York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Seth  Low,  Charles  P.  Daly,  John  S.  Newbury, 
Charles  A.  Dana,  Addison  Brown,  Parke  Godwin,  Henry  C. 
Potter,  Charles  Butler,  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Edward  Cooper, 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  Nathaniel  L.  Britton,  Morris  K.  Jessup, 
J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  Andrew  Carnegie,  Thomas  F.  Gilroy, 
Eugene  Kelly,  Jr.,  Richard  T.  Auchmuty,  D.  O.  Mills,  Charles 
F.  Chandler,  Louis  Fitzgerald,  Theodore  W.  Myers,  William  C. 
Schermerhorn,  Oswald  Ottendorfer,  Albert  Gallup,  Timothy  F. 
Allen,  Henry  R.  Hoyt,  William  G.  Choate,  William  H.  Draper, 
John  S.  Kennedy,  Jesse  Seligman,  William  L.  Brown,  David 
Lydig,  William  E.  Dodge,  James  A.  Scrymser,  Samuel  Sloan, 
William  H.  Robertson,  Stephen  P.  Nash,  Richard  W.  Gilder, 
Thomas  Hogg,  Nelson  Smith,  Samuel  W.  Fairchild,  Robert 
Maclay,  William  H.  S.  Wood,  George  M.  Olcutt,  Charles  F. 
Cox,  James  R.  Pitcher,  Percy  R.  Pyne,  and  such  persons  as  are 
now,  or  may  hereafter  be  associated  with  them,  and  their  suc- 
cessors, are  hereby  constituted  and  created  a  body  corporate  by 
the  name  of  the  New  York  Botanical  Garden,  to  be  located  in 
the  city  of  New  York,  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  and  main- 
taining a  botanical  garden  and  museum  and  arboretum  therein, 
for  the  collection  and  culture  of  plants,  flowers,  shrubs  and 
trees,  the  advancement  of  botanical  science  and  knowledge  and 
the  prosecution  of  original  researches  therein  and  in  kindred 
subjects,  for  affording  instruction  in  the  same,  for  the  prosecu- 
tion and  exhibition  of  ornamental  and  decorative  horticulture 
and  gardening  and  for  the  entertainment,  recreation  and  instruc- 
tion of  the  people. 

Sec.  2.  Said  corporation  shall  have  all  such  corporate  powers, 
and  may  take  and  hold  by  gift,  grant  or  devise  all  such  real  and 
personal  property  as  may  be  necessary  and  proper  for  carrying 


STA  TUTES.  57 

out  the  purposes  aforesaid,  and  for  the  endowment  of  the  same, 
or  any  branch  thereof,  by  adequate  funds  therefor. 

Sec.  3.  Said  corporation  may  adopt  a  constitution  and  by- 
laws; make  rules  and  regulations  for  the  transaction  of  its  busi- 
ness, the  admission,  suspension  and  expulsion  of  the  associate 
members  of  said  corporation,  and  for  the  number,  election, 
terms  and  duties  of  its  officers,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this 
act;  and  may  from  time  to  time  alter  or  modify  its  constitution, 
by-laws,  rules  and  regulations,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  pro- 
visions of  title  three,  of  chapter  eighteen,  of  the  first  part  of  the 
Revised  Statutes. 

Sec.  4.  The  affairs  of  the  said  corporation  shall  be  managed 
and  controlled  by  a  board  of  managers  as  follows :  The  presi- 
dent of  Columbia  College,  the  professors  of  botany,  of  geology, 
and  of  chemistry  therein,  the  president  of  the  Torrey  botanical 
club,  and  the  president  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  city  of 
New  York,  and  their  successors  in  office,  shall  be  ex-officio 
members  of  said  corporation  and  of  the  board  of  managers,  and 
be  known  as  the  scientific  directors;  they  shall  have  the  man- 
agement and  control  of  the  scientific  and  educational  depart- 
ments of  said  corporation  and  the  appointment  of  the  director- 
in-chief  of  said  institution,  who  shall  appoint  his  first  assistant 
and  the  chief  gardener,  and  be  responsible  for  the  general  scien- 
tific conduct  of  the  institution.  All  other  business  and  affairs 
of  the  corporation,  including  its  financial  management,  shall  be 
under  the  control  of  the  whole  board  of  managers,  which  shall 
consist  of  the  scientific  directors,  as  herein  provided,  and  of  the 
mayor  of  the  city  of  New  York,  the  president  of  the  board  of 
commissioners  of  the  department  of  public  parks,  and  at  least 
nine  other  managers  to  be  elected  by  the  members  of  the  cor- 
poration. The  first  election  shall  be  by  ballot  and  held  on  a 
written  notice  of  ten  days,  addressed  by  mail  to  each  of  the 
above-named  incorporators,  stating  the  time  and  place  of  elec- 
tion, and  signed  by  at  least  five  incorporators.  Three  of  the 
managers  so  elected  shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  three  for  two 
years,  and  three  for  three  years.  The  term  of  office  of  the  man- 
agers elected  after  the  first  election,  save  those  elected  to  fill 
vacancies  in  unexpired  terms,  shall  be  three  years ;  and  three 
managers,  and  such  others  as  may  be  needed  to  fill  vacancies  in 


58  STA  TUTES. 

unexpired  terms,  shall  be  elected  annually,  pursuant  to  the  by- 
laws of  the  corporation.  The  number  of  elective  managers  may 
be  increased  by  vote  of  the  corporation,  whose  terms  and  elec- 
tion shall  be  as  above  provided ;  and  members  may  from  time 
to  time  be  added  to  the  scientific  directors  by  a  majority  vote  of 
the  scientific  directors,  approved  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  whole 
board  of  managers.  The  board  of  managers  shall  elect  from 
their  number  a  president,  secretary  and  treasurer,  none  of  whom, 
or  of  the  board  of  managers,  save  the  secretary  and  treasurer, 
shall  receive  any  compensation  for  his  services.  Nine  corpora- 
tors shall  constitute  a  quorum  at  any  meeting  of  the  incorpora- 
tors ;  but  a  less  number  may  adjourn.  (As  amended  by  Laws 
1894,  Chapter  103.) 

Sec.  5.  Whenever  the  said  corporation  shall  have  raised,  or 
secured  by  subscription,  a  sum  sufficient  in  the  judgment  of  the 
board  of  commissioners  of  the  department  of  public  parks  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  for  successfully  establishing  and  prosecuting 
the  objects  aforesaid,  not  less,  however,  than  two  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars  within  seven  years  from  the  passage  of  this 
act,  the  said  board  of  commissioners  is  hereby  authorized  and 
directed  to  set  apart  and  appropriate,  upon  such  conditions  as 
to  the  said  board  may  seem  expedient,  a  portion  of  the  Bronx 
park,  or  of  such  other  of  the  public  parks  in  the  city  of  New 
York  north  of  the  Harlem  river  in  charge  of  the  said  department 
of  parks  as  may  be  mutually  agreed  upon  between  the  said 
board  of  commissioners  and  the  board  of  managers  of  said  cor- 
poration in  lieu  of  Bronx  park,  not  exceeding  two  hundred  and 
fifty  acres,  for  establishing  and  maintaining  therein  by  the  said 
corporation  a  botanical  garden  and  museum,  including  an  her- 
barium and  arboretum,  and  for  the  general  purposes  stated  in  the 
first  section  of  this  act.  And  the  said  board  of  commissioners 
is  thereupon  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  construct  and 
equip  within  the  said  grounds  so  allotted,  according  to  plans 
approved  by  them  and  by  said  board  of  managers,  a  suitable 
fire-proof  building  for  such  botanical  museum  and  herbarium, 
with  lecture-rooms  and  laboratories  for  instruction,  together 
with  other  suitable  buildings  for  the  care  and  culture  of  tender 
or  other  plants,  indigenous  or  exotic,  at  an  aggregate  cost  not 
exceeding  the  bonds  hereinafter  authorized  to  be  issued  by  the 


STA  TUTES.  69 

city  of  New  York ;  the  use  of  said  buildings  upon  completion  to 
be  transferred  to  said  corporation  for  the  purposes  stated  in  this 
act.  And  for  the  purpose  of  providing  means  therefor,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  comptroller  of  the  city  of  New  York,  upon 
being  thereto  requested  by  said  commissioners,  and  upon  being 
authorized  thereto  by  the  board  of  estimate  and  apportionment, 
to  issue  and  sell  at  not  less  than  their  par  value  bonds  or  stock 
of  the  mayor,  aldermen  and  commonalty  of  the  city  of  New 
York,  in  the  manner  now  provided  by  law,  payable  from  taxa- 
tion, aggregating  the  sum  of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  bear- 
ing interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  three  per  centum  per  annum, 
and  to  be  redeemed  within  a  period  of  time  not  longer  than 
thirty  years  from  the  date  of  their  issue.  (As  amended  by  Laws 
1894,  Chapter  103.) 

Sec.  6.  The  grounds  set  apart  as  above  provided,  shall  be 
used  for  no  other  purpose  than  authorized  by  this  act ;  and  no 
intoxicating  liquors  shall  be  sold  or  allowed  thereon.  For 
police  purposes,  and  for  the  maintenance  of  proper  roads  and 
walks,  the  said  grounds  shall  remain  subject  at  all  times  to  the 
control  of  the  said  board  of  commissioners  of  the  department  of 
parks;  but  otherwise  after  the  suitable  laying  out  of  the  same, 
and  the  construction  of  proper  roads  and  walks  therein  by  the 
department  of  parks,  the  said  grounds  and  buildings  shall  be 
under  the  management  and  control  of  the  said  corporation.  The 
said  grounds  shall  be  open  and  free  to  the  public  daily,  includ- 
ing Sundays,  subject  to  such  restrictions  only  as  to  hours  as  the 
proper  care,  culture  and  preservation  of  the  said  garden  may 
require;  and  its  educational  and  scientific  privileges  shall  be 
open  to  all  alike,  male  and  female,  upon  such  necessary  regula- 
tions, terms  and  conditions  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  man- 
agers of  those  departments. 

Sec.  7.   This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


60  STA  TUTES. 

An  Act  in  relation  to  certain  avenues  and  streets  in 
THE  City  of  New  York.  Passed  April  5,  1892. 

Laws  of  1892,  Chapter  230. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

S^rtion  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  counsel  to  the  corpora- 
tion and  the  board  of  street  openings  of  the  city  of  New  York, 
to  take  the  necessary  means  and  proceedings  to  open  the  follow- 
ing streets  in  said  city:  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-first  Street, 
from  Amsterdam  Avenue  to  the  Boulevard.  No  street,  road  or 
avenue  shall  hereafter  be  laid  out  or  opened  through  or  upon 
any  part  of  the  lands  and  premises  lying  between  Amsterdam 
Avenue  and  the  Boulevard  and  One  Hundred  and  Sixteenth 
and  One  Hundred  and  Twentieth  streets,  in  the  city  of  New 
York,  whenever  and  so  long  as  the  same  shall  be  owned  or 
occupied  for  educational  purposes  by  the  trustees  of  Columbia 
College  in  the  city  of  New  York;  provided,  however,  that 
nothing  in  this  section  contained  shall  be  construed  to  inter- 
fere with  the  opening  of  One  Hundred  and  Sixteenth  street 
after  January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-four,  and  that 
the  said,  the  trustees  of  Columbia  College  in  the  city  of  New 
York,  shall  dedicate  without  claim  or  award  for  damages  the 
northerly  one-half  of  the  land  required  for  said  street  so  far  as 
the  said  street  forms  the  southerly  boundary  of  the  aforesaid 
first  mentioned  lands  and  premises,  and  for  street  purposes  a 
strip  of  land  forty  feet  in  width  on  the  southerly  side  of  One 
Hundred  and  Twentieth  street,  from  Amsterdam  avenue  to  the 
Boulevard. 

§  2.  All  the  laws  now  in  force  in  said  city  in  relation  to  the 
opening  and  improvement  of  streets  and  avenues,  and  the  pay- 
ment and  the  assessment  of  the  expense  thereof  shall  apply  to 
the  said  streets ;  provided,  however,  that  nothing  contained  in 
any  act  shall  authorize  the  discontinuance  of  any  proceedings 
which  may  be  taken  to  open  the  said  streets. 

§  3.  All  motions  and  applications  for  the  appointment  of  com- 
missioners in  said  proceedings  may  be  made  at  any  special  term 
of  the  supreme  court  held  in  and  for  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York.     Upon  the  coming  in  and  confirmation  by  the  court  of  the 


STA  TUTES.  61 

report  of  such  commissioners,  the  commissioner  of  public  works 
shall  proceed  and  actually  open,  grade,  regulate,  pave  and 
improve  said  streets. 

§  4.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  heretofore  passed,  so  far  as  the 
same  interfere  or  are  inconsistent  with  this  act,  are  hereby- 
repealed. 

§  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


62  STA  TUTES. 

An  Act  to  permit  the  union  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians AND  Surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York  with  the 
Trustees  of  Columbia  College  in  the   city  of  New  York. 

Passed  March  24,   1891. 
Laws  1891,  Chap.   ioi. 

The   People   of  the  State  of  New   York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The  trustees  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York,  having  arranged  with 
Columbia  college  in  said  city  to  assume  the  instruction  now 
given  by  the  said  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  as  a 
department  of  the  work  of  Columbia  college,  are  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  grant,  convey,  assign  and  transfer 
all  real  and  personal  property  of  which  they  as  such  trustees  are 
seized  or  possessed  to  the  trustees  of  Columbia  college,  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  upon  such  terms,  conditions  or  limitations  as 
may  be  agreed  upon  between  the  two  institutions. 

Sec.  2.  The  regents  of  the  university  of  the  state  of  New 
York,  upon  being  satisfied  that  the  trustees  of  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  have  conveyed  and  transferred  all 
their  property,  pursuant  to  the  authority  hereinbefore  conferred, 
may  accept  a  surrender  of  the  charter  heretofore  granted  by  the 
said  regents  to  the  said  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
and  forever  discharge  the  said  trustees  from  their  trusts  in  the 
premises. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


STA  TUTES.  63 

An  Act  to  ratify  the  union  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians AND  Surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York  with  the 
Trustees  of  Columbia  College  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
and  to  define  certain  rights,  duties  and  powers  of  the 
dean  of  the  medical  faculty  of  Columbia  College. 

Passed  March  6,  1894. 
Laws  1894,  Chap.  97. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  ana 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The  union  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  the  city  of  New  York  with  the  Trustees  of  Columbia 
College  in  the  city  of  New  York,  pursuant  to  chapter  one  hun- 
dred and  one  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-one, 
entitled  "An  act  to  permit  the  union  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York  with  the  Trustees 
of  Columbia  College  in  the  city  of  New  York,"  is  hereby  ratified 
and  confirmed ;  and  the  Trustees  of  Columbia  college  are  hereby 
substituted  as  successors  to  and  as  trustees  in  the  place  and  stead 
of  the  trustees  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  for  the 
execution  of  any  and  all  trusts  now  vested  in  or  which  may  here- 
after devolve  upon  the  Trustees  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons;  and  the  dean  of  the  medical  faculty  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege and  his  successors  are  hereby  declared  to  be  the  successors 
in  office  of  the  president  of  the  managing  board  of  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York,  with  all  the 
rights,  powers  and  duties  heretofore  conferred  upon  or  vested  in 
the  president  of  the  managing  board  of  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  and  his  successors  in  office  by  chapter  four  of  the 
laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  entitled  ''An  act  to 
incorporate  the  Roosevelt  Hospital  in  the  city  of  New  York,"  or 
by  any  other  act  of  the  Legislature  or  by  deed  or  will. 

Sec.   2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


©fficial  Dommcnts- 


LEASE  BY  TRINITY  CHURCH  OF  A  PORTION  OF 
THE  KING'S  FARM. 

9ri)i6  Unbcntnxc  made  the  twelfth  day  of  May  in  the  twenty- 
eighth  year  of  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord  George  the 
Second  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  Great  Britain,  France  and  Ire- 
land King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c.  and  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty-five  between  the 
Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion 
of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established*  of  the  one  part 
and  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York 
in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  of  the  other  part  t33itne60ett) 
that  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in 
communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  for 
and  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  ten  shillings  to  them  in  hand 
paid  by  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  at  or  before  the 
sealing  and  delivery  of  these  presents,  the  receipt  whereof  is 
hereby  acknowledged  have  bargained,  Sold  and  Demised  and 
by  these  Presents  do  Bargain,  Sell  and  Demise  unto  the  said 
Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in 
the  City  of  New  York  in  America,  ^U  tl)flt  certain  Piece 
or  Parcell  of  ground  Situate,  lying  and  being  on  the  West 
side  of  the  Broadway  in  the  West  ward  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  fronting  easterly  to  Church  Street  between  Barclay 
Street  and  Murray  Street  four  hundred  and  forty  foot 
and  from  thence  running  Westerly  between  and  along  the 
said  Barclay  Street  and  Murray  Street  to  the  North  River  and 
also  the  use  of  a  street  called  Robinson  Street  from  the  Middle 
of  the  said   Land,   easterly  to  the  Broadway  of  Ninty  foot  in 

*  The  corporate  title,  "  The  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York 
in  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England,"  was  changed  to  "  The  Rector  and 
Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  Communion  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  State  of^New  York,"  by  Chapter  66  of  the  Laws  of  1788,  and  was 
again  changed  to  "The  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  Trinity 
Church  in  the  City  of  New  York,"  by  Chapter  i  of  the  Laws  of  1814. 

64 


TRINITY  CHURCH  LEASE.  65 

breadth,  together  with  all  and  singular  the  Wells,  Waters, 
Fences,  Ways,  easements,  Profitts,  Commodities  and  Appurte- 
nances whatsoever  to  the  aforesaid  piece  or  Parcell  of  Ground 
belonging  or  in  anywise  appertaining  and  the  Reversion  and 
Reversions,  remainder  and  remainders,  rents,  Issues  and  profitts 
thereof  t0  l)ttt)e  ttltb  to  l)olb  the  said  piece  or  parcell  of  ground 
and  premises  with  the  appurtenances  herein  before  mentioned 
and  discribed  and  intended  to  be  hereby  demised  with  their  and 
every  of  their  appurtenances  and  the  use  of  the  said  Street  of 
ninty  foot  in  breadth  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of 
the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America 
and  their  successors  from  the  day  next  before  the  day  of  the 
date  of  these  Presents  for  and  during  the  Term  of  one  whole 
year  from  thence  next  ensuing  and  fully  to  be  compleat  and 
ended  Yielding  and  paying  therefore  unto  the  said  Rector  and 
Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion  of  the 
Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  and  their  successors 
the  rent  of  one  pepper  corn  on  the  last  day  of  the  said  Term  if 
demanded  To  the  intent  that  by  virtue  of  these  Presents  and  of 
the  Statute  for  transferring  of  uses  into  Possession  the  said  Gov- 
ernors of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City 
of  York  in  America  may  be  in  the  Actual  Possession  of  the  said 
hereby  bargained  Premises  with  their  appurtenances  and  be 
thereby  enabled  to  accept  and  take  a  Grant  and  Release  of  the 
reversion  &  inheritance  thereof  to  them  and  their  successors  for 
ever. 

Sn  witness  tD[)ere0f  to  the  one  part  of  these  Present  Inden- 
tures remaining  with  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the 
Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  the 
said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  com- 
munion of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  have 
caused  their  Seal  to  be  affixed  and  to  the  other  part  thereof 
remaining  with  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of 
New  York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law 
established  they  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the 
Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America 
have  caused  their  Seal  to  be  affixed  the  Day  and  year  first  above 
written. 

[seal  of  the  corporation.] 


RELEASE  BY  TRINITY   CHURCH   OF  A  PORTION  OF 
THE  KING'S  FARM. 

Sl^ljis  Snirentttre  Made  the  Thirteenth  day  of  May  in  the 
Twenty-eighth  year  of  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord 
George  the  Second  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Ireland  King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c.  and  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty- 
five  BETWEEN  the  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New 
York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law 
established  of  the  one  part,  and  the  Governors  of  the  College 
of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in 
America  of  the  other  part  toitttessetl)  that  the  said  Rector 
and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion  of  the 
Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  as  well  as  for  the  en- 
couraging and  promoting  the  founding,  erecting  and  establish- 
ing a  College  in  the  said  Province  of  New  York  for  the  educa- 
tion and  instruction  of  youth  in  the  Liberal  Arts  and  sciences  as 
for  and  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  ten  shillings  to  them  in 
hand  paid  by  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of 
New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  at  or  before  the 
sealing  and  delivery  of  these  Presents,  the  receipt  whereof  is 
hereby  acknowledged  and  for  divers  other  good  causes  and  con- 
siderations them  thereunto  moving  They  the  said  Rector  and 
Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion  of  the 
Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  have  Granted,  bar- 
gained, sold,  aliened,  remised,  released  and  confirmed  and  by 
these  Presents  do  grant,  bargain,  sell,  alien,  remise,  release 
and  confirm  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the 
Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America,  in 
their  actual  possession  now  being  by  virtue  of  a  Bargain  and 
Sale  to  them  thereof  made  by  the  said  Rector  and  inhabitants 
of  the  city  of  New  York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land as  by  law  established  by  Indenture  bearing  date  the  day 
next  before  the  day  of  the  date  of  these  presents  and  of  the 
Statute  for  transferring  of  uses  into  possession  and  to  their  suc- 
cessors forever   ^U   tl)at   certain    piece    or   parcell    of    ground 

66 


TRINITY  CHURCH  RELEASE.  67 

Situate,  lying  and  being  on  the  West  side  of  the  Broadway  in 
the  West  ward  of  the  City  of  New  York  fronting  easterly  to 
Church  Street  between  Barclay  Street  and  Murray  Street  four 
hundred  and  forty  foot  and  from  thence  running  westerly  be- 
tween and  along  said  Barclay  Street  and  Murray  Street  to  the 
North  river  and  also  the  use  of  a  Street  called  Robinson  Street 
from  the  Middle  of  the  said  Land  easterly  to  the  Broadway  of 
Ninty  foot  in  breadth  together  will  all  and  singular  the  Wells, 
Waters,  Fences,  ways,  easements,  profitts.  Commodities  and  ap- 
purtenances whatsoever  to  the  aforesaid  piece  or  parcell  of  ground 
belonging  or  in  anywise  appertaining  and  the  reversion  and 
reversions  remainder  and  remainders,  rents,  issues  and  profitts 
thereof  and  all  the  Estate,  Right,  Title,  Interest,  property, 
possession,  claim  and  demand  whatsoever  of  them  the  said 
Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion 
of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  of  in  or 
to  the  same  and  every  part  and  parcell  thereof  to  \\<V^t  ^x(^ 
t0  Ijolir  the  said  piece  or  parcell  of  Ground  and  Premises 
with  the  appurtenances  hereinbefore  mentioned  and  described 
and  intended  to  be  hereby  granted  and  released  with  their  and 
every  of  their  appurtenances  and  the  use  of  the  said  street  of 
ninety  foot  in  breadth  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of 
the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America 
and  their  successors  forever,  Provided  nevertheless  and  this 
present  grant  and  release  is  upon  this  express  condition  that  the 
President  of  the  said  College  forever  for  the  time  being  shall  be 
Member  of  and  in  communion  with  the  Church  of  England  as 
by  law  established  and  that  the  Morning  and  Evening  Service 
in  the  said  College  be  the  Liturgy  of  the  said  Church  or  such  a 
Collection  of  Prayers  out  of  the  said  Liturgy  with  a  Collect 
peculiar  for  the  said  College  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  and 
approved  of  by  the  President  and  Governors  of  the  said 
College  and  that  upon  failure  thereof  this  present  grant  and 
release  shall  cease,  determine  and  be  utterly  void  and  of 
none  effect  to  all  intents  and  purposes  as  if  the  same  had 
never  been  made,  anything  herein  contained  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding.  And  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the 
City  of  New  York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England 
as  by  law   established  for  themselves  and  their  successors  do 


68  TRINITY  CHURCH  RELEASE. 

hereby  covenant,  promise,  grant  and  agree  to  and  with  the  said 
Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City 
of  New  York  in  America  and  their  successors  in  manner  and  form 
following  (that  is  to  say)  that  the  said  hereby  bargained  & 
Released  Premises  and  every  part  and  parcell  thereof  now  are 
and  at  all  times  hereafter  (untill  failure  be  made  in  performance 
of  the  Provisoe  and  Condition  aforesaid)  shall  be,  remain  and 
continue  free  and  clear  and  freely  and  clearly  acquitted  and  dis- 
charged of  and  from  all  manner  of  former  and  other  gifts, 
grants  and  mortgages,  titles,  troubles,  charges  and  incumbrances 
whatsoever  had,  made  and  done,  committed  or  willingly  suffered 
by  them  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  in  the  City  of  New 
York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  estab- 
lished or  any  other  person  or  persons  whatsover  claiming  by 
from  or  under  them  and  that  they  the  said  Governors  of  the 
College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in 
America  and  their  successors  shall  and  may  from  time  to  time 
and  at  all  times  hereafter  until  failure  be  made  in  the  Per- 
formance of  the  Provisoe  and  condition  aforesaid  have  hold, 
occupy,  possess  and  enjoy  the  said  hereby  bargained  and  released 
premises  and  every  part  thereof  without  any  lett,  suit,  trouble, 
molestation  or  hindrance  of  them  the  said  Rector  and  inhabit- 
ants of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of 
England  as  by  law  established,  their  successors  or  assigns  or  any 
other  person  or  persons  whatsoever  claiming  by  from  or  under 
them. 

Jn  tuitmss  toljereof  to  one  part  of  these  Present  Indentures 
remaining  with  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  the  said 
Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  communion 
of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established,  have  caused 
their  seal  to  be  affixed  and  to  the  other  part  thereof  remaining 
with  the  said  Rector  and  Inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York  in 
communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  they 
the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York 
in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  have  caused  their  seal  to  be 
affixed  the  Day  and  year  first  above  written. 

[seal  of  the  corporation.] 


PROSPECTUS  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 

New  York,  May  31,  1754. 
Advertisement. 
Q[o  Sticb  |)arent0  as  have  now  (or  expect  to  have)  Children  pre- 
pared to  be  educated  in  the  College  of  New-York. 

L  As  the  Gentlemen  who  are  appointed  by  the  Assembly,  to 
be  Trustees  of  the  intended  Seminary  or  College  of  New- York, 
have  thought  fit  to  appoint  me  to  take  the  Charge  of  it,  and  have 
concluded  to  set  up  a  Course  of  Tuition  in  the  learned  Lan- 
guages, and  in  the  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences:  They  have  judged 
it  advisible  that  I  should  publish  this  Advertisement^  to  inform 
such  as  have  Children  ready  for  a  College  Education,  that  it  is 
proposed  to  begin  Tuition  upon  the  first  Day  of  July  next,  at  the 
Vestry  Room  in  the  new  School-House^  adjoining  to  Trinity-Church 
in  New-  York^  which  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Vestry  are  so  good  as 
to  favour  them  with  the  Use  of  it  in  the  Interim,  till  a  con- 
venient Place  may  be  built. 

IL  The  lowest  Qualifications  they  have  judged  requisite  in 
order  to  Admission  into  the  said  College,  are  as  follows,  viz. 
That  they  be  able  to  read  well,  and  write  a  good  legible  Hand ; 
and  that  they  be  well  versed  in  the  Five  first  Rules  in  Arithmetic, 
i.  e.  as  far  as  Division  and  Reduction  ;  And  as  to  Latin  and  Greek, 
That  they  have  a  good  Knowledge  in  the  Grammars^  and  be  able 
to  make  grammatical  Latin,  and  both  in  construing  and  pars- 
ing, to  give  a  good  Account  of  two  or  three  of  the  first  select 
Orations  of  Tully,  and  of  the  first  Books  of  Virgil's  Aeneid,  and 
some  of  the  first  Chapter  of  the  Gospel  of  St.  John,  in  Greek.  In 
these  Books  therefore  they  may  expect  to  be  examined;  but 
higher  Qualifications  must  hereafter  be  expected :  and  if  there  be 
any  of  the  higher  Classes  in  any  College,  or  under  private 
Instruction,  that  incline  to  come  hither,  they  may  expect  Admis- 
sion to  proportionably  higher  Classes  here. 

III.  And  that  People  may  be  the  better  satisfied  in  sending 
their  Children  for  Education  to  this  College,  it  is  to  be  under- 
stood that  as  to  Religion,  there  is  no  Intention  to  impose  on  the 

69 


70  PROSPECTUS. 

Scholars,  the  peculiar  Tenets  of  any  particular  Sect  of  Chris- 
tians; but  to  inculcate  upon  their  tender  Minds,  the  great  Prin- 
ciples of  Christianity  and  Morality,  in  which  true  Christians  of 
each  Denomination  are  generally  agreed.  And  as  to  the  daily 
Worship  in  the  College  Morning  and  Evening,  it  is  proposed 
that  it  should,  ordinarily,  consist  of  such  a  Collection  of  Les- 
sons, Prayers  and  Praises  of  the  Liturgy  of  the  Church,  as  are, 
for  the  most  Part,  taken  out  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  such  as 
are  agreed  on  by  the  Trustees,  to  be  in  the  best  Manner  ex- 
pressive of  our  common  Christianity ;  and,  as  to  any  peculiar 
Tenets,  everyone  is  left  to  judge  freely  for  himself,  and  to  be 
required  only  to  attend  constantly  at  such  Places  of  Worship,  on 
the  Lord's  Day,  as  their  Parents  or  Guardians  shall  think  fit  to 
order  or  permit. 

IV.  The  chief  Thing  that  is  aimed  at  in  this  College  is,  to 
teach  and  engage  the  Children  to  know  God  in  Jesus  Christy  and 
to  love  and  serve  him,  in  all  Sobriety^  Godliness^  and  Righteousness 
of  Life,  with  2,  perfect  Hearty  and  a  willing  Mind ;  and  to  train 
them  up  in  all  virtuous  Habits,  and  all  such  useful  Knowledge 
as  may  render  them  creditable  to  their  Families  and  Friends, 
Ornaments  to  their  Country  and  useful  to  the  public  Weal  in 
their  Generations.  To  which  good  Purposes,  it  is  earnestly 
desired,  that  their  Parents,  Guardians  and  Masters,  would  train 
them  up  from  their  Cradles,  under  strict  Government,  and  in 
all  Seriousness,  Virtue  and  Industry,  that  they  may  be  qualified 
to  make  orderly  and  tractable  Members  of  this  Society; — and, 
above  all,  that  in  order  hereunto,  they  be  very  careful  them- 
selves, to  set  them  good  Examples  of  true  Piety  and  Virtue  in 
their  own  Conduct.  For  as  Examples  have  a  very  powerful 
Influence  over  young  Minds,  and  especially  those  of  their 
Parents,  in  vain  are  they  solicitous  for  a  good  Education  for 
their  Children,  if  they  themselves  set  before  them  Examples  of 
Impiety  and  Profanness,  or  of  any  sort  of  Vice  whatsoever. 

V.  And,  lastly.,  a.  serious,  virtuous^  and  industrious  Course  of 
Life,  being  first  provided  for,  it  is  further  the  Design  of  this 
College,  to  instruct  and  perfect  the  Youth  in  the  Learned 
Languages,  and  in  the  Arts  of  reasoning  exactly,  of  writing  cor- 
rectly, and  speaking  eloquently ;  and  in  the  Arts  of  numbering  and 
measuring;  of  Surveying  and  Navigation.,  of  Geography  and  History., 


PROSPECTUS.  71 

of  Husbandry^  Commerce  and  Government^  and  in  the  Knowledge  of 
all  Nature  in  the  Heavens  above  us,  and  in  the  Air^  Water  and 
Earth  around  us,  and  the  various  kinds  of  Meteors^  Stones^  Mines 
and  Minerals^  Plants  and  Animals.,  and  of  every  Thing  useful  for 
the  Comfort,  the  Convenience  and  Elegance  of  Life,  in  the 
chief  Manufactures  relating  to  any  of  these  Things:  And,  finally, 
to  lead  them  from  the  Study  of  Nature  to  the  Knowledge  of 
themselves,  and  of  the  God  of  Nature,  and  their  Duty  to  him, 
themselves,  and  one  another,  and  every  Thing  that  can  con- 
tribute to  their  true  Happiness,  both  here  and  hereafter. 

Thus  much.  Gentlemen.,  it  was  thought  proper  to  advertise  you 
of,  concerning  the  Nature  and  Design  of  this  College:  And  I 
pray  God,  it  may  be  attended  with  all  the  Success  you  can  wish, 
for  the  best  Good  of  the  rising  Generations;  to  which,  (while  I 
continue  here),  I  shall  willingly  contribute  my  Endeavours  to  the 
Utmost  of  my  Power. 

Who  am,  Gentlemen,  Your  real  Friend  And  most  humble 
Servant 

Samuel  Johnson. 

N.  B.  The  Charge  of  the  Tuition  is  established  by  the  Trus- 
tees to  be  only  25s.  for  each  Quarter. 


The  foregoing  advertisement  appeared  in  the  "  New- York 
Mercury,"  No.  95,  and  also  in  the  "New- York  Gazette;  or 
Weekly  Post  Boy"  of  June  3,  1754,  No.  592.  The  following 
notice  was  published  in  the  latter  journal  on  July  i,  1754,  No. 
596: 

Qlljis  i0  to  arquaint  whom  it  may  concern  that  I  shall  attend 
at  the  Vestry  Room  in  the  School-House,  near  the  English 
Church,  on  Tuesdays  and  Thursdays  every  week,  between  the 
Hours  of  Nine  and  Twelve,  to  examine  such  as  offer  themselves 
to  be  admitted  into  the  College. 

Samuel  Johnson. 


LETTERS    PATENT    OF    THE    TOWNSHIP    OF 
KINGSLAND. 

(3cotQZ  tl)e  tl)ir&,  by  the  grace  of  God,  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Ireland  king  defender  of  the  faith  and  so  forth. 

TO  all  whom  these  presents  shall  come  greeting. 

tol)ereas  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  America  by  their  humble  petition 
presented  unto  our  late  trusty  and  well  beloved  Sir  Henry  Moore, 
Baronet  then  our  Captain  General  and  Governor-in-chief  of  our 
said  Province  and  read  in  our  Council  for  our  said  Province  on 
the  fourth  day  of  February  which  was  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixty  seven,  did  set  forth 
among  other  things,  that  the  petitioners  being  desirous  of  extend- 
ing and  rendering  as  beneficial  as  possible  the  laudable  institu- 
tion committed  to  their  care  which  had  been  distinguished  by 
the  countenance,  protection  and  liberality  of  our  said  late  cap- 
tain general  and  governor  in  chief's  predecessors,  had  been  at 
some  pains  in  discovering  a  tract  of  vacant  land  in  hopes  that 
our  said  late  captain  general  and  governor  in  chief  from  a  con- 
sideration that  there  was  a  similar  provision  for  learning  in  other 
colonies  might  be  induced  to  appropriate  the  same  for  the  better 
support  of  an  establishment,  in  the  prosperity  of  which  they 
conceived  the  public  to  be  deeply  interested.  That  there  was  a 
tract  of  land  which  tho'  very  distant  and  uncultivated,  they 
hoped  and  under  proper  improvement  might  contribute  to  this 
end.  Situate  on  the  west  side  of  Connecticut  river  within  our 
said  Province  and  called  and  known  by  the  name  of  Dasham, 
bounded  to  the  eastward  by  a  tract  of  land  then  lately  peti- 
tioned for  and  to  be  called  Gageborough ;  to  the  southward  by 
a  tract  of  land  commonly  called  or  known  by  the  name  of  Tun- 
bridge,  to  the  westward  by  vacant  land,  and  to  the  northward 
by  a  tract  of  land  then  lately  petitioned  for  under  the  name  of 
Chatham,  and  extending  so  far  westward  as  to  comprehend  the 
quantity  of  twenty-five  thousand  acres.  And  therefore  the  peti- 
tioners do  humbly  pray  that  our  said  late  captain  general  and 
governor  in  chief  would  be  favorably  pleased  by  our  letters  pat- 

72 


LETTERS  PATENT.  73 

ent  to  grant  unto  them  and  their  successors  the  tract  of  land 
above  described  and  that  the  same  might  be  erected  into  a 
township  with  the  usual  privileges  which  petition  having  been 
referred  to  a  committee  of  our  Council  for  our  said  Province 
our  said  Council  did  afterwards  on  the  twelfth  day  of  the 
same  month  of  February  in  pursuance  of  the  report  of  the 
said  committee  humbly  advise  and  consent  that  our  said  late 
captain  general  and  governor  in  chief  should  grant  the  prayer 
hereof  atlb  txjljer^as  the  said  petitioners  by  their  farther  pe- 
tition presented  unto  our  trusty  and  well  beloved  Cadwallader 
Colden,  esquire,  our  lieutenant  governor  and  commander  in  chief 
of  our  said  Province  and  read  in  our  said  Council  on  the  seventh 
day  of  February  now  last  past  did  among  other  things  set  forth, 
that  on  the  thirteenth  day  of  May  which  was  in  the  said  year  of 
our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixty  seven  a  certain 
other  tract  of  land  was  advised  to  be  granted  to  Nathaniel 
Marston  and  his  associates  situate  on  the  west  side  of  Connecti- 
cut river  bounded  easterly  by  a  tract  of  land  commonly  called 
or  known  by  the  name  of  Corinth  and  southerly  by  the  above 
mentioned  tract  of  land  known  by  the  name  of  Dasham,  north- 
erly by  a  line  beginning  at  the  west  line  of  the  said  tract  of 
land  known  by  the  name  of  Corinth  at  the  distance  of  about 
four  miles  and  an  half  from  the  southwest  corner  of  the  said 
tract  of  land  known  by  the  name  of  Corinth  and  running 
parallel  to  the  north  boundary  line  of  the  said  tract  of  land 
known  by  the  name  of  Dasham  and  westerly  by  a  line  from  the 
north  line  of  the  said  tract  of  land  known  by  the  name  of 
Dasham  continued  westward  to  the  said  parallel  line  and  at 
such  a  distance  from  the  said  tract  of  land  known  by  the  name 
of  Corinth  and  parallel  thereto  as  to  comprehend  twenty-four 
thousand  acres.  That  the  said  Nathaniel  Marston  and  his 
associates  had  relinquished  their  claim  thereto,  intending  with 
the  consent  of  the  petitioners  to  apply  for  a  grant  of  the  tract 
first  above  described  in  lieu  thereof,  that  neither  of  the  said 
tracts  of  land  though  within  the  limits  formerly  claimed  by  the 
government  of  New  Hampshire  had  ever  been  patented  or 
granted  under  that  government  and  therefore  the  petitioners 
did  humbly  pray  that  our  said  lieutenant  governor  and  com- 
mander in  chief  would  be  favorably  pleased  to  grant  to  them 


•74  LETTERS  PATENT. 

and  their  successors  the  said  tract  of  twenty-four  thousand 
acres  of  land  instead  of  the  tract  prayed  for  by  them  in  their 
said  first  recited  petition  and  that  the  said  tract  of  twenty-four 
thousand  acres  might  be  erected  into  a  township  by  the  name  of 
Kingsland  with  the  usual  privileges  granted  to  other  townships 
within  our  said  Province.  On  reading  and  due  consideration 
of  which  last  recited  petition  our  Council  of  our  said  Province 
did  humbly  advise  and  consent  that  our  said  lieutenant  governor 
and  commander  in  chief  should  by  our  letters  patent  grant  to 
the  said  petitioners  and  their  successors  for  ever  the  tract  of 
twenty-four  thousand  acres  of  land  last  described  as  aforesaid 
under  the  quit  rent,  provisoes,  limitations  and  restrictions  pre- 
scribed by  our  Royal  instructions.  And  that  the  said  tract  of 
twenty-four  thousand  acres  of  land  should  be  erected  into  a 
township  by  the  name  of  Kingsland  with  the  usual  privileges 
granted  to  other  townships  within  our  Province  of  New 
York.  Sn  JJtltiSitlttnce  whereof  and  in  obedience  to  our  said 
Royal  instructions  our  commissioners  appointed  for  the  set- 
ting out  all  lands  to  be  granted  within  our  said  Province 
have  set  out  for  the  said  petitioners  ^11  tl)at  certain  tract 
or  parcel  of  land  within  our  province  of  New  York  situate, 
lying  and  being  in  the  county  of  Albany  on  the  west  side  of 
Connecticut  river  beginning  at  a  beech  tree  marked  with  the 
letters  WK  NWcorner  PM,  EW,  for  the  southwest  corner  of  a 
tract  of  land  called  Corinth  and  runs  thence  along  part  of  the 
west  bounds  of  the  last  mentioned  tract  north  thirty  degrees 
east  three  hundred  and  sixty  chains  to  a  hard  maple  tree,  hav- 
ing some  large  stones  laid  around  it  and  a  beech  tree  twenty 
five  links  west  of  the  said  maple  tree  marked  with  the  letters 
and  figures  PM,  EW  1767.  Then  from  the  aforesaid  hard  maple 
tree  north  fifty  seven  degrees  west  seven  hundred  and  one 
chains ;  then  south  thirty  degrees  west  three  hundred  and  sixty 
chains ;  then  south  fifty  seven  degrees  east  seven  hundred  and 
one  chains  to  the  place  where  this  tract  first  began  containing 
twenty  four  thousand  acres  of  land  and  the  usual  allowance  for 
highways  and  in  setting  out  the  said  tract  of  twenty  four  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  our  said  commissioners  have  had  regard  to 
the  profitable  and  unprofitable  acres  and  have  taken  care  that 
the  length  of  the  said  tract  of  land  doth  not  extend  along  the 


LETTERS  PATENT.  75 

banks  of  any  river  otherwise  than  is  conformable  to  our  said 
Royal  instructions  as  by  a  certificate  thereof  under  their  hands 
bearing  date  the  second  day  of  this  instant  month  of  March 
and  entered  on  record  in  our  secretary's  office  for  our  said  Prov- 
ince may  more  fully  appear  which  said  tract  of  land  set  out  as 
aforesaid  according  to  our  said  Royal  instructions.  We  being 
willing  to  grant  to  the  said  petitioners  their  successors  assigns 
for  ever  with  the  several  privileges  with  the  several  privileges 
and  powers  hereinbefore  mentioned.  HttOlJJ  ge  that  of  our 
special  grace  certain  knowledge  and  meer  motion  we  have  given 
granted,  ratified  and  confirmed  and  do  by  these  presents  for  us, 
our  heirs  and  successors  give,  grant,  ratify  and  confirm  unto 
them  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York 
in  the  city  of  New  York  in  America  their  successors  and  assigns 
for  ever  all  that  the  tract  or  parcel  of  land  aforesaid  set  out 
abutted,  bounded  and  described  in  manner  and  form  as  above 
mentioned,  together  with  all  and  singular  the  tenements,  here- 
ditaments, emoluments  and  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging 
or  appertaining  and  also  all  our  Estate,  Right,  Title,  Interest, 
possession,  Claim  and  Demand  whatsoever  of,  in  and  to  the  same 
lands  and  premises  and  every  part  and  parcel  thereof  and  the 
reversion  and  reversions,  remainder  and  remainders,  rents,  issues 
and  profits  thereof  and  every  part  and  parcel  thereof  except  and 
always  reserved  out  of  this  our  present  grant  unto  us,  our  heirs 
and  successors  for  ever  all  mines  of  Gold  and  Silver  and  also  all 
white  or  other  sorts  of  pine  trees  fit  for  masts,  of  the  growth 
of  twenty-four  inches  diameter  and  upwards  of  twelve  inches 
from  the  earth  for  masts  for  the  royal  navy  of  us,  our  heirs 
and  successors  ta  l)at)e  aitb  to  l)olir  the  said  tract  or  parcel  of 
land,  tenements,  hereditaments  and  premises  by  these  presents 
granted,  ratified  and  confirmed  and  every  part  and  parcel 
thereof  with  their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances  (except 
as  is  hereinbefore  excepted)  unto  them  the  Governors  of  the 
College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York 
in  America  their  successors  and  assigns,  to  the  only  proper 
use  and  behoof  of  them  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the 
Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  their 
successors  and  assigns  for  ever,  to  be  holden  of  us,  our  heirs 
and  successors  in  free  and  common  socage  as  of  our  manor  of 


'76  LE  TTERS  PA  TEN  T. 

East  Greenwich  in  our  county  of  Kent  within  our  Kingdom  of 
Great  Britain  yielding,  rendering  and  paying  therefore  yearly 
and  every  year  for  ever  unto  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  at  our 
custom  house  in  our  city  of  New  York  unto  our  or  their  col- 
lector or  receiver  general  there  for  the  time  being,  on  the  feast  of 
the  Annunciation  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary,  commonly  called 
Lady  Day,  the  yearly  rent  of  two  shillings  and  six  pence  sterling 
for  each  and  every  hundred  acres  of  the  above  granted  lands 
and  so  in  proportion  for  any  lesser  quantity  thereof,  saving  and 
except  for  such  part  of  the  said  lands  allowed  for  highways  as 
above  mentioned  in  lieu  and  stead  of  all  other  rents  services, 
dues,  duties  and  demands  whatsoever  for  the  hereby  granted 
lands  and  premises  or  any  part  thereof  and  we  do  of  our  especial 
grace  certain  knowledge  and  meer  motion  create,  erect  and  con- 
stitute the  tract  or  parcel  of  land  herein  granted  and  every  part 
and  parcel  thereof  a  township  for  ever  hereafter  to  be  continue 
and  remain  and  by  the  name  of  Kingsland  for  ever  hereafter  to 
be  called  and  known  and  for  the  better  and  more  easily  carrying 
on  and  managing  the  public  affairs  and  business  of  the  said 
township  our  royal  will  and  pleasure  is  and  we  do  hereby  for 
us,  our  heirs  and  successors  give  and  grant  to  the  inhabitants 
of  the  said  township  all  the  powers,  authorities,  privileges  and 
advantages  heretofore  given  and  granted  to,  or  legally  enjoyed 
by,  all  any  or  either  our  other  townships  within  our  said 
Province.  ^n&  toe  also  ordain  and  establish,  that  there  shall  be 
for  ever  hereafter  in  the  said  township  two  assessors,  one 
treasurer,  two  overseers  of  the  highways,  two  overseers  of  the 
poor,  one  collector  and  four  constables  elected  and  chosen  out 
of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  township  yearly  and  every  year  on 
the  first  Tuesday  in  May  at  the  most  public  place  in  the 
said  township  by  the  majority  of  the  freeholders  thereof 
then  and  there  met  and  assembled  for  that  purpose;  hereby 
declaring,  that  wheresoever  the  first  election  in  the  said  town- 
ship shall  be  held,  the  future  elections  shall  for  ever  there- 
after be  held  in  the  same  place,  as  near  as  may  be,  and  giving 
and  granting  to  the  said  officers  so  chosen  power  and  authority 
to  exercise  their  said  several  and  respective  offices  during  one 
whole  year  from  such  election  and  until  others  are  legally 
chosen  and  elected  in  their  room  and  stead  as  fully  and  amply 


LE  TTERS  PA  TENT.  Tt 

as  any  the  like  officers  have  or  legally  may  use  or  exercise  their 
offices  in  our  said  Province.  And  in  case  any  or  either  of  the 
said  officers  of  the  said  township  should  die  or  remove  from  the 
said  township  before  the  time  of  their  annual  service  shall  be 
expired,  or  refuse  to  act  in  the  offices  for  which  they  shall 
respectively  be  chosen,  then  our  royal  will  and  pleasure  further 
is  and  we  do  hereby  direct,  ordain  and  require  the  freeholders 
of  the  said  township  to  meet  at  the  place  where  the  annual  elec- 
tion shall  be  held  for  the  said  township  and  choose  other  or 
others  of  the  said  inhabitants  of  the  said  township  in  the  place 
and  stead  of  him  or  them  so  dying,  removing  or  refusing  to  act, 
within  forty  days  next  after  such  contingency.  And  to  prevent 
any  undue  election  in  this  case,  we  do  hereby  ordain  and  require, 
that  upon  every  vacancy  in  the  office  of  assessors,  the  treasurer 
and  in  either  of  the  other  offices  the  assessors  of  the  said  town- 
ship shall  within  ten  days  next  after  any  such  vacancy  first  hap- 
pens appoint  the  day  for  such  election  and  give  public  notice 
thereof  in  writing  under  his  or  their  hands,  by  affixing  such 
notice  on  the  church  door  or  other  most  public  place  in  the  said 
township,  at  least  ten  days  before  the  day  appointed  for  such 
election,  and  in  default  thereof  we  do  hereby  require  the  officer 
or  officers  of  the  said  township  or  the  survivor  of  them  who  in 
the  order  they  are  hereinbefore  mentioned  shall  next  succeed 
him  or  them  so  making  default  within  ten  days  next  after  such 
default,  to  appoint  the  day  for  such  election  and  to  give  notice 
thereof  as  aforesaid ;  hereby  giving  and  granting  that  such  per- 
son or  persons  as  shall  be  so  chosen  by  the  majority  of  such  of 
the  freeholders  of  the  said  township  as  shall  meet  in  manner 
hereby  directed  shall  have,  hold,  exercise  and  enjoy  the  office 
or  offices  to  which  he  or  they  shall  be  so  elected  and  chosen  from 
the  time  of  such  election  until  the  first  Tuesday  in  May  then 
next  following,  and  until  other  or  others  be  legally  chosen  in  his 
or  their  place  and  stead,  as  fully  as  the  person  or  persons  in 
whose  place  he  or  they  shall  be  chosen  might  or  could  have  done 
by  virtue  of  these  presents,  ^nb  MJC  bo  hereby  will  and  direct, 
that  this  method  shall  for  ever  hereafter  be  used  for  the  filling  up 
all  vacancies  that  shall  happen  in  any  or  either  of  the  said  offices 
between  the  annual  elections  above  directed  provided  always 
and  upon  condition,  nevertheless,  that  if  our  said  grantees  their 


78  LE  TTERS  PA  TENT. 

successors  or  assigns  shall  not  within  three  years  next  after  the 
date  of  this  our  present  grant  settle  on  the  said  tract  of  land 
hereby  granted  so  many  families  as  shall  amount  to  one  family 
for  every  thousand  acres  of  the  same  tract,  or  if  they  our  said 
grantees  their  successors  or  assigns  shall  not  also  within  three 
years  to  be  computed  as  aforesaid  plant  and  effectually  cultivate 
at  the  least  three  acres  for  every  fifty  acres  of  such  of  the 
hereby  granted  lands  as  are  capable  of  cultivation,  or  if  they 
our  said  grantees  their  successors  or  assigns  or  any  other  person 
or  persons  by  their,  or  any  of  their  privity,  consent  or  procure- 
ment shall  fell,  cut  down  or  otherwise  destroy  any  of  the  pine 
trees  by  these  presents  reserved  to  us,  our  heirs  and  successors 
or  hereby  intended  so  to  be  without  the  royal  license  of  us,  our 
heirs,  or  successors  for  so  doing  first  had  and  obtained,  that  then 
and  in  any  of  these  cases  this  our  present  grant  and  every  thing 
hereinbefore  contained,  shall  cease  and  be  absolutely  void  and 
the  lands  and  premises  hereby  granted  shall  revert  to  and  vest 
in  us,  our  heirs  and  successors,  as  if  this  our  present  grant  con- 
cerning the  same  had  not  been  made  any  thing  hereinbefore 
contained  to  the  contrary  in  any  wise  notwithstanding. 

{}r0Oi^eir  further  and  upon  condition  also  nevertheless  and  we 
do  hereby  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  direct  and  appoint 
that  this  our  present  grant  shall  be  registered  and  entered  on 
record  with  in  six  months  from  the  date  thereof  in  our  secre- 
tary's office  in  our  city  of  New  York  in  our  said  Province  in  one 
of  the  books  of  patents  there  remaining  and  that  a  docquet 
thereof  shall  be  also  entered  in  our  auditors  office  there  for  our 
said  province  and  that  in  default  thereof  this  our  present  grant 
shall  be  void  and  of  none  effect,  any  thing  before  in  these  pres- 
ents contained  to  the  contrary  thereof  in  any  wise  notwithstand- 
ing dX^  «)l)erea0  by  the  charter  of  our  late  royal  grandfather 
King  George  the  second  under  his  great  seal  of  the  said  Prov- 
ince of  New  York  bearing  date  the  thirty-first  day  of  October 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty 
four  and  of  his  reign  the  twenty  eight  establishing  the  said  col- 
lege, it  is  among  other  things  granted  that  the  Governors  of  the 
College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York 
in  America  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  said  college  shall  and  may 
have   full   power   and   authority   to  give,   grant,    bargain,    sell, 


LETTERS  PATENT.  79 

demise,  assign  or  otherwise  dispose  of  all  or  any  messuages, 
lands,  tenements,  rents  and  other  hereditaments  and  real  estate, 
and  all  goods  chattels  money  and  other  things  whatsoever  as  to 
them  shall  seem  fit  either  in  the  payment  of  the  salary  or  sala- 
ries of  the  president,  fellows  and  professors  of  the  said  College 
or  any  other  officers  or  ministers  of  the  same  at  their  will  and 
pleasure  (except  as  therein  is  excepted)  tttlb  ujl)er^as  some 
doubts  have  arose  whether  the  said  corporation  have  by  reason 
of  the  above  in  part  recited  clause  of  the  said  charter,  power  in 
any  manner  to  dispose  of  any  their  messuages,  lands,  tene- 
ments, rents,  hereditaments  or  real  estate  not  comprised  within 
the  said  exception  unless  in  the  payment  of  the  salary  or  sala- 
ries aforesaid.  Now  for  preventing  all  doubts  or  disputes  con- 
cerning the  same  for  the  future,  we  do  by  these  presents  for  us, 
our  heirs,  and  successors  of  our  especial  grace  certain  knowl- 
edge and  mere  motion  ordain  and  declare  and  give  and  grant  to 
the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in 
the  city  of  New  York  in  America  and  their  successors  for  ever 
that  it  shall  and  may  be  lawfuU  for  them  and  their  successors 
for  ever  by  the  same  name,  to  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell,  demise, 
assign  or  otherwise  dispose  of  the  lands,  tenements  and  heredit- 
aments by  these  presents  granted,  and  all  other  the  messuages, 
lands,  tenements,  rents,  and  other  hereditaments  and  real  estate 
which  they  now  or  hereafter  may  have  or  hold  (not  comprised 
within  the  said  exception)  either  in  fee  simple,  for  life  or  lives 
or  for  years,  or  in  any  other  manner  whatsoever  which  they 
shall  think  most  conducive  to  the  benefit  of  the  said  College, 
any  thing  in  the  said  charter  above  mentioned  to  the  contrary 
thereof  in  any  wise  notwithstanding.  ^n&  tDl)erjea6  the  said 
exception  in  the  said  charter  above  mentioned  respects  certain 
lands  in  the  said  charter  more  particularly  described,  situate 
on  the  west  side  of  the  broad  way  in  the  West  ward  of  the 
City  of  New  York  which  at  the  time  of  granting  the  said 
charter  were  set  apart  and  have  been  since  conveyed  by 
the  rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  City  of  New  York 
in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  estab- 
lished to  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  America  in  fee  to  and  for  the 
use  of  the  said  College  and  it  is  thereby  ordained   that  no  grant 


80  LETTERS  PATENT. 

or  lease  of  the  said  land  or  any  part  thereof  shall  be  made  by 
the  said  governors  of  the  said  college  which  shall  exceed  the 
number  of  twenty-one  years  and  that  either  in  possession,  or  not 
above  three  years  before  the  end  and  expiration  or  determina- 
tion of  the  estate  or  estates  in  possession  as  by  the  same  charter 
recourse  being  thereunto  had,  may  more  fully  appear,  ^nb 
tDl)ereas  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  of  the  city  of  New  York  in  America  by  their  farther  humble 
petition  presented  unto  our  said  lieutenant  governor  and  com- 
mander in  chief  of  our  said  Province  and  read  in  our  said  Coun- 
cil for  our  said  Province  on  the  fourteenth  day  of  February  now 
last  past  did  represent  that  they  found  the  said  restriction  last 
mentioned  to  be  prejudicial  to  the  interest  of  the  said  college, 
as  from  the  steepness  of  the  banks  of  the  necessity  of  wharfs 
and  other  impediments,  that  part  of  the  said  land  (contained 
within  the  said  exception)  which  fronts  the  North  river  cannot 
be  improved  but  at  a  very  great  expense  and  therefore  humbly 
prayed  our  said  Lieutenant  governor  and  commander  in  chief 
would  be  favorably  pleased  by  our  letters  patent  to  enable  the 
petitioners  to  grant  and  demise  that  part  of  the  said  lands  which 
fronts  the  said  North  river  to  the  extent  of  two  hundred  feet 
from  the  same,  for  any  term  not  exceeding  ninety  nine  years.  . 
linotD  ge  further  therefore  that  of  our  especial  grace  certain 
knowledge  and  mere  motion,  we  have  given  and  granted  and  by 
these  presents  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  do  give  and  grant 
to  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in 
the  city  of  New  York  in  America  and  their  successors  for 
ever  full  power  and  authority  and  that  it  shall  and  may  be 
lawful  for  them  and  their  successors  for  ever  to  grant  and 
demise  for  and  during  any  term  not  exceeding  ninety  nine 
years,  all  that  part  and  parcel  of  the  said  lands  (conveyed 
as  aforesaid  by  the  rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  city  of  New 
York  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England,  as  by  law 
established  to  the  said  governors  of  the  college  of  the  Province 
of  New  York  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  America)  from  the 
whole  front  thereof  on  the  said  North  river  as  far  back  as 
the  depth  of  two  hundred  feet  from  the  said  river,  anything 
in  the  said  charter  contained  to  the  contrary  thereof  in  any  wise 
notwithstanding.     And  we  do  moreover  of  our  especial  grace 


LETTERS  PATENT.  81 

and  certain  knowledge  and  mere  motion,  consent  and  agree, 
that  this  our  present  grant  being  registered,  recorded  and  a 
doquet  thereof  made  as  before  directed  and  appointed  shall  be 
good  and  effectual  in  the  law  to  all  intents,  constructions  and 
purposes  whatsoever  against  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  not- 
withstanding any  misreciting,  misbounding,  misnaming  or  other 
imperfections  or  omission  of  in  or  in  any  wise  concerning  the 
above  granted  or  hereby  mentioned  or  intended  to  be  granted 
lands,  tenements,  hereditaments,  powers,  privileges,  authorities 
and  premises  or  any  part  thereof. 

Sn  t^Stimong  whereof  we  have  caused  these  our  letters  to  be 
made  patent  and  the  great  seal  of  our  said  Province  to  be  here- 
unto affixed.  il3itne06  our  said  trusty  and  well  beloved  Cad- 
wallader  Golden,  Esquire,  our  said  lieutenant  governor  and 
commander  in  chief  of  our  said  Province  of  New  York  and 
the  territories  depending  thereon  in  America  at  our  Fort  in 
our  city  of  New  York  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
our  said  Council  for  our  said  Province  the  fourteenth  day  of 
March  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
seventy  and  of  our  reign  the  tenth. 

Clarke. 

[great  seal  of  the  province.] 

First  Skin  Line  the  fortieth  the  letter  a  is  interlined;  and 
Second  Skin  Line  the  forty-third  part  of  the  word  be  wrote  in 
erasure. 

(Endorsed) : 

New  York  Secretary's  Office  22  March  1770  The  within 
Letters  Patent  are  recorded  in  this  Office  in  Lib.  Patents  No  15 
page  72  &c 

Geo.  Banyar 

D.  Sec'y 

New  York  Auditor  General's  Office  23  March  1770.  The 
within  Letters  Patent  are  Docqueted  in  this  Office 

Geo.   Banyar 

Dep.  Aud^- 


LEASE  OF  LAND  IN  THE  TOWNSHIP   OF   NORBURY. 

®l)i0  Inbentttre,  made  the  Sixth  Day  of  April  in  the  year  of 
our  Lord  One  thousand  seven  hundred  and  Seventy  four  be- 
tween His  Excellency  William  Tryon  Esquire  Captain  General 
and  Governor  in  Chief  in  and  over  the  Province  of  New  York  in 
America  of  the  one  Part  and  the  Governors  of  the  College  of 
the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America 
of  the  other  Part  toitttessetl)  That  His  said  Excellency  William 
Tryon  for  and  in  Consideration  of  the  Sum  of  Five  Shillings  of 
lawful  money  of  the  Province  of  New  York  to  him  in  Hand  paid 
by  the  said  Parties  of  the  second  Part  the  Receipt  whereof  is 
hereby  acknowledged  hath  granted  bargained  and  sold  and  by 
these  Presents  doth  grant  bargain  and  sell  unto  the  said  Gov- 
ernors of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the 
City  of  New  York  in  America  ^U  tl)at  certain  Tract  or  Parcel  of 
Land  Situate  lying  and  being  in  the  County  of  Gloucester  in  the 
Province  of  New  York  being  the  Northwesterly  Part  of  a  certain 
Tract  of  Land  containing  Thirty  Thousand  Acres  and  the  usual 
Allowance  for  Highways  granted  unto  Samuel  Chandler  and 
others  by  Letters  Patent  under  the  Great  Seal  of  the  Province 
of  New  York  bearing  Date  the  Fourteenth  Day  of  April  in  the 
Year  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  seven  hundred  and  Seventy  two 
and  erected  into  a  Township  by  the  Name  of  Norbury,  The 
same  Tract  or  Parcel  of  Land  by  these  Presents  intended  to  be 
granted  beginning  at  the  most  Westerly  Corner  of  the  said 
Township  of  Norbury  Thence  running  along  the  Southwesterly 
Bounds  of  the  said  Township  South  Sixty  Degrees  East  Two 
hundred  and  Twenty  Chains;  Thence  North  Thirty  Degrees 
East  to  the  Northeasterly  Bounds  of  the  said  Township  Thence 
along  the  last  mentioned  Bounds  North  Sixty  Degrees  West  to 
the  most  Northerly  Corner  of  the  said  Township;  Thence 
along  Northwesterly  Bounds  of  the  said  Township,  to  the 
Place  of  beginning  above  mentioned  Containing  Ten  thousand 
Acres  of  Land  and  the  usual  Allowance  for  Highways,  together 
with  all  and  Singular  the  Emoluments  Hereditaments  and  Ap- 
purtenances to  the  same  and  every  Part  and  Parcel  thereof  be- 
longing or  in    anywise    appertaining  and  the    Reversion  and 

83 


TRYON  LEASE.  83 

Reversions,  Remainder  and  Remainders  Rents  Issues  and 
Profits  thereof  and  of  every  Part  and  Parcel  thereof  with  their 
and  every  of  their  appurtenances  to  l)atJe  ^x(^  to  l)olb  all  and 
Singular  the  said  Tract  of  Ten  thousand  Acres  of  Land  and  the 
usual  Allowance  for  Highways  and  other  the  Premises  hereby 
bargained  and  sold  and  every  Part  and  Parcel  thereof  with  their 
and  every  of  their  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Governors  of  the 
College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York 
in  America  and  their  Successors  and  Assigns  from  the  Day  next 
before  the  Day  of  the  Date  of  these  Presents  for  and  during  and 
unto  the  full  End  and  Term  of  one  whole  Year  from  thence 
next  ensuing  and  fully  to  be  compleat  and  ended  yielding  and 
PAYING  therefore  at  the  Expiration  of  the  said  Year  one  Pepper 
Corn  if  the  same  shall  be  lawfully  demanded  to  the  Intent  and 
Purpose  that  by  Virtue  of  these  Presents  and  of  the  Statute  for 
Transferring  Uses  into  Possession  they  the  said  Governors  of 
the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New 
York  in  America  may  be  in  the  actual  Possession  of  all  and 
Singular  the  Premises  hereby  bargained  and  sold  with  the  Ap- 
purtenances and  thereby  be  enabled  to  accept  and  take  a  Grant 
and  Release  of  the  Reversion  and  Inheritance  thereof  to  them 
and  their  Successors  To  the  only  proper  Use  and  Behoof  of 
them  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  their  Successors  and 
Assigns  for  ever  to  for  and  upon  such  Intents  and  Purposes  as 
shall  be  thereof  declared. 

Jfn  toitness  whereof  his  said  Excellency  has  to  one  Part  of 
these  Indentures  set  his  Hand  and  Seal  and  to  the  other  Part 
thereof  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of 
New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  have  caused 
their  Common  Seal  to  be  affixed  the  Day  and  Year  first  above 
written. 

Wm.     (Seal)     Tryon. 

(Endorsed.) 

Sealed  and  Delivered  in  the  Presence  of  ^ 
(Line  four  and  Ten  Razures  filled  up 
and   Line  Sixteen  the  word   Successors 
wrote  on  Razure.) 

Peter  Ogilvie, 

Wm.  Banyar. 


RELEASE    OF    LAND    IN    THE    TOWNSHIP    OF 
NORBURY. 

S[l)is  Inbenttire  made  the  Seventh  Day  of  April  in  the  Year 
of  our  Lord  One  Thousand  Seven  Hundred  and  Seventy  four 
BETWEEN  his  Exceliency  William  Tryon  Esquire  Governor  in 
chief  in  and  over  the  Province  of  New  York  in  America  of  the 
one  Part  and  the  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of 
New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  of  the  other 
Part  toitnessetl)  That  his  said  Excellency  William  Tryon  for  the 
Esteem  which  he  bears  to  the  said  College  and  from  a  Desire  of 
advancing  as  well  the  Interests  thereof  as  to  promote  and  ex- 
tend its  Usefullness  in  disseminating  the  Principles  of  Virtue, 
Literature  and  Loyalty  and  also  for  and  in  Consideration  of  the 
Sum  of  Five  Shillings  of  lawful  Money  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  to  him  in  Hand  paid  by  the  said  Parties  of  the  second 
Part  the  Receipt  whereof  is  hereby  acknowledged  hath  granted 
aliened  released  conveyed  and  confirmed  and  by  these  Presents 
DOTH  clearly  and  absolutely  grant  alien  release  convey  and  con- 
firm unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of 
New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  (in  their  actual 
Possession  now  being  by  Virtue  of  a  Lease  to  them  thereof 
made  for  one  whole  Year  by  Indenture  bearing  Date  the  Day 
next  before  the  Day  of  the  Date  of  these  Presents  and  by  Force 
of  the  Statute  for  Transferring  Uses  into  Possession)  and  to 
their  Successors  and  Assigns  for  ever  ^U  tl)at  certain  Tract 
or  Parcel  of  Land  situate  lying  and  being  in  the  County  of 
Gloucester  in  the  Province  of  New  York  being  the  Northwesterly 
part  of  a  certain  Tract  of  Land  containing  Thirty  Thousand 
Acres  and  the  several  Allowances  for  Highways  granted  unto 
Samuel  Chandler  and  others  by  Letters  Patent  under  the  Great 
Seal  of  the  Province  of  New  York  bearing  Date  the  Fourteenth 
Day  of  April  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  Seven  hun- 
dred and  Seventy  two  and  erected  into  a  Township  by  the  name 
of  NoRBURY  The  same  Tract  or  Parcel  of  Land  by  these  Pres- 
ents intended  to  be  granted  Beginning  at  the  Most  Westerly 

84 


TR  YON  RE  LEA  SE.  85 

Corner  of  the  Township  of  Norbury  thence  running  along  the 
Southwesterly  Bounds  of  the  said  Township  South  Sixty  De- 
grees East  Two  hundred  and  Twenty  Chains,  thence  North 
Thirty  Degrees  East  to  the  northeasterly  Bounds  of  the  said 
Township  Thence  along  the  last  mentioned  Bounds  North  Sixty 
Degrees  West  to  the  most  northerly  Corner  of  the  said  Town- 
ship Thence  along  the  Northwesterly  Bounds  of  the  said  Town- 
ship to  the  Place  of  Beginning  above  mentioned  containing 
Ten  Thousand  Acres  of  Land  and  the  usual  Allowance  for 
Highways  together  with  all  and  singular  the  Emoluments  and 
Hereditaments  and  Appurtenances  to  the  same  and  every  part 
and  parcel  thereof  belonging  or  in  anywise  appertaining  And 
the  Reversion  and  Reversions  Remainder  and  Remainders 
Rents  Issues  and  Profits  thereof  and  of  every  Part  and  Parcel 
thereof  with  their  and  every  of  their  Appurtenances  and  also  all 
the  Estate  Right,  Title,  Interest,  Claim  and  Demand  what- 
soever in  Law  and  Equity  of  him  the  said  William  Tryon  of  in 
and  to  the  same  and  to  every  Part  and  Parcel  thereof  with  the 
Appurtenances  to  l)at)e  ani  to  l)0l^  all  and  singular  the  said 
Tract  of  Ten  Thousand  Acres  of  Land  and  the  usual  Allowance 
for  Highways  and  other  the  Premises  hereby  granted  and  every 
Part  and  Parcel  thereof  with  their  and  every  of  their  Appurte- 
nances unto  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province 
of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  and  their 
Successors  and  Assigns  for  Ever  To  the  only  proper  Use 
and  Behoof  of  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province 
of  New  York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  and  their 
Successors  and  Assigns  for  Ever  To  the  End  and  Purpose  and 
upon  ttjie  special  QTrust  and  Confidence  nevertheless  that  they 
the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New  York 
in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  and  their  Successors 
for  ever  Whether  the  said  Corporation  shall  continue  to  be 
called  by  the  Name  or  Title  aforesaid  or  by  any  other 
Name  or  Stile  whatsoever  do  and  shall  well  and  faith- 
fully grant  in  Fee  Farm  or  from  Time  to  Time  demise  and 
let  the  Lands  hereby  granted  for  such  Term  and  Terms  of 
Years  and  to  such  Person  or  Persons  in  such  Parts  and  Par- 
cels and  on  such  Terms  Conditions  and  Rents  as  they  shall 
judge    most    advantageous    for   increasing   the   annual    Profits 


86  TR  YON  RELEA  SE. 

thereof  to  the  said  Corporation  and  that  they  and  their  Succes- 
sors from  Time  to  Time  when  and  as  the  Rents  Issues  and  *  * 
Profits  aforesaid  shall  become  sufficient  for  the  Support  and 
Maintenance  thereof  do  establish  One  or  more  Professorship  or 
Professorships  of  and  in  the  said  Seminary  in  such  Branch  or 
Branches  of  Literature  as  to  the  said  Corporation  shall  seem 
expedient  and  that  they  from  Time  to  Time  increase  the  Num- 
ber of  Professorships  as  the  Funds  which  shall  arise  from  the 
said  Lands  as  aforesaid  shall  become  capable  of  decently  sup- 
porting the  Professor  so  to  be  appointed  And  upon  this  further 
especial  Trust  and  Confidence  that  the  said  Corporation  from 
Time  to  Time  do  well  and  faithfully  apply  in  Stipends  to  such 
Professor  or  Professors  all  and  singular  the  clear  Rents  Issues 
and  Profits  aforesaid  after  deducting  the  necessary  Costs 
Charges  and  Expences  attending  the  Management  or  Preserva- 
tion of  the  said  Lands  and  Premises  hereby  granted  and  all  other 
Charges  and  Expences  which  the  said  Corporation  shall  in  any 
manner  become  liable  to  pay  for  or  on  Account  of  the  said  Lands 
and  Premises.  Always  provided  that  when  at  any  Time  or 
Times  hereafter  the  clear  annual  Rents  Issues  and  Profits  afore- 
said shall  in  the  Judgment  of  the  said  Corporation  be  more  than 
sufficient  to  support  any  certain  Number  of  Professorships  and 
not  sufficient  to  support  one  more  Professorship  that  it  shall  be 
lawfull  for  them  to  retain  such  Overplus  and  put  the  same  at 
Interest  for  the  Increase  of  the  said  Fund  the  same  Interest  to  be 
nevertheless  applied  together  with  the  Annual  Overplus  afore- 
said (when  the  same  shall  be  sufficient)  for  the  Support  of 
another  Professorship  all  and  Singular  which  said  Professors 
to  be  appointed  by  the  said  Corporation  in  Manner  and  Form  as 
other  Professors  in  the  said  Seminary  are  directed  to  be 
appointed  by  the  present  Charter  of  the  said  Corporation  or 
in  such  other  Manner  and  Form  as  Professors  in  the  said 
Seminary  shall  or  may  be  hereafter  directed  to  be  appointed  by 
any  other  Charter  or  Charters  hereafter  to  be  granted  to  the  said 
Corporation  and  subject  to  all  and  singular  the  Regulations 
Rules  and  Orders  which  the  said  Corporation  already  hath  or 
shall  from  Time  to  Time  think  fit  to  make  for  the  Regulation  of 
their  Professors  in  general  or  for  the  particular  Regulation  and 
Government  of  the  Professors  to  be  supported  as  aforesaid  The 


TRYON  RELEASE.  87 

said  Professors  when  established  according  to  the  true  Intent 
and  Meaning  of  these  Presents  to  be  severally  called  and  known 
by  the  Name  of  Tryonian  Professors  the  first  Professor  so  to 
be  appointed  to  be  a  Professor  of  the  municipal  Laws  of 
England. 

Jn  toitness  whereof  his  said  Excellency  has  to  one  part  of 
these  Presents  set  his  Hand  and  Seal  and  to  the  other  part 
thereof  the  said  Governors  of  the  College  of  the  Province  of  New 
York  in  the  City  of  New  York  in  America  have  caused  their 
Common  Seal  to  be  affixed  the  Day  and  Year  first  above 
written. 

Wm.   (seal)  Tryon. 
(Endorsed) 
Sealed  and  delivered  in  the  Presence  of^ 

Line  Sixteen  the  Words  a7id  Assigns  wrote 

on  Razure  and  Line  Seventeen  a  Rasure  «• 

filled  up  and  Line  Twenty  five  the  word  I 

not  interlined  J 

Peter  Ogilvie 
Wm.  Banyar. 


(!If)^rter0  of  Alumni  ^00ociatton0. 


ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  ALUMNI  OF  COLUMBIA 
COLLEGE. 

An  Act  to  incorporate  ''The  Association  of  the  Alumni 
OF  Columbia  College."  Passed  May  2ist,  1874. 

Laws  of  1874,  Chapter  520. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Henry  Drisler,  Frederic  De  Peyster,  J.  Howard 
Van  Amringe,  Charles  R.  Swords,  Henry  James  Anderson, 
William  Mitchell,  George  P.  Quackenbos,  Charles  A.  Silliman, 
William  H.  Butterworth,  Joseph  B.  Lawrence,  Henry  R.  Beek- 
man,  William  Bayard  Cutting,  James  McNamee,  James  M. 
Brady,  Seth  Low,  and  Stuyvesant  Fish,  at  present  forming  the 
officers  and  standing  committee  of  "The  Association  of  the 
Alumni  of  Columbia  College,"  together  with  such  other  persons 
as  appear  to  be  members  of  that  association  on  the  books  of  the 
treasurer  of  the  same,  and  not  to  be  in  arrears  more  than  two 
years  for  dues,  and  also  with  such  other  persons  as  shall  here- 
after become  members  of  the  corporation  hereby  created  in  such 
manner  and  upon  such  terms  as  shall  be  prescribed  in  the  con- 
stitution or  by-laws  of  such  corporation,  are  hereby  constituted 
and  created  a  body  corporate  and  politic  in  fact  and  in  name  by 
the  name  of  *'  The  Association  of  the  Alumni  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege," for  the  purposes  mentioned  in  this  act;  and  by  that  name 
they,  and  their  successors  and  associates,  shall  have  perpetual 
succession,  and  shall  be  capable  in  law  of  suing  and  being  sued, 
and  of  receiving,  purchasing,  holding,  conveying,  leasing,  mort- 
gaging, or  otherwise  disposing  of  any  real  and  personal  estate 
for  the  use  and  benefit  of  said  corporation,  which  estate  shall 
not  exceed  the  net  annual  income  of  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  The  object  of  this  corporation  shall  be  to  perpetuate 
the  friendships  and  relations  arising  during  the  course  of  study 

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ALUMNI  CHARTERS.  89 

in  Columbia  College,  to  promote  the  true  interests,  influence 
and  efficiency  of  Columbia  College  as  an  institution  of  sound 
learning  and  practical  education,  and  with  these  objects  to 
establish  lectureships,  to  have  meetings  of  the  members  of  said 
corporation  for  social  and  literary  purposes  and  for  the  manage- 
ment of  its  business,  to  appoint  from  time  to  time  (if  the  trus- 
tees of  Columbia  College  shall  consent  thereto,  and  with  such 
restrictions,  if  any,  as  said  trustees  shall  prescribe)  such  number 
of  trustees  of  said  college  as  said  college  may,  by  general  rules, 
or  from  time  to  time,  authorize  said  corporation  hereby  consti- 
tuted to  appoint. 

Sec.  3.  The  said  corporation,  at  one  or  more  special  meetings 
to  be  called  by  its  standing  committee  for  that  purpose,  shall 
have  power  to  frame  its  constitution  and  by-laws,  with  provis- 
ions therein  for  subsequent  amendments  of  the  same,  provided 
the  said  constitution,  by-laws  and  amendments  be  not  incon- 
sisent  with  the  laws  or  constitution  of  the  United  States  or  of 
this  State,  and  that  there  be  present  at  such  special  meeting 
at  least  thirty  members. 

Sec.  4.  The  officers  of  said  corporation  shall  be,  until  other- 
wise prescribed  by  their  constitution,  a  president,  vice-presi- 
dent, secretary,  and  treasurer,  who,  with  twelve  other  mem- 
bers to  be  elected  at  a  general  or  special  meeting  shall  be  the 
standing  committee  of  said  corporation. 

Sec.  5.  Such  standing  committee  shall  have  such  powers  as 
shall  be  lawfully  conferred  on  them  by  the  constitution  and 
by-laws  of  the  corporation,  and  they  and  the  said  officers  shall 
hold  their  offices  for  such  time  and  in  such  manner  as  such  con- 
stitution and  by-laws  shall  prescribe. 

Sec.  6.  Such  constitution  and  by-laws  may  declare  what  num- 
ber of  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  at  meetings  of  the 
standing  committee,  and  provide  for  the  manner  of  admitting 
and  suspending  and  removing  members  and  officers  of  the  cor- 
poration. 

Sec.  7.  The  said  corporation  shall  be  subject  to  and  have  the 
rights  conferred  by  the  general  provisions  contained  in  the  third 
title  of  the  eighteenth  chapter  of  the  first  part  of  the  Revised 
Statutes,  except  that  no  member  of  said  corporation  shall  be  liable 
for  any  debts  or  liabilities  of  the  same  unless  on  an  agreement 


90  ALUMNI  CHARTERS. 

in  writing  to  be  subscribed  by  such  member  and  expressly  bind- 
ing him. 

Sec.  8.  The  said  corporation,  hereby  constituted,  may  take 
real  and  personal  estate  by  will,  but  subject  to  the  general  provis- 
ions of  the  act  relating  to  wills,  passed  April  thirteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty,  chapter  three  hundred  and  sixty. 

Sec.  9.  The  several  officers  of  said  association  existing  at  the 
time  of  the  passage  of  this  act,  shall  hold  their  respective  offices 
as  officers  of  this  corporation  with  the  powers  and  duties  pre- 
scribed by  the  constitution  and  by-laws  of  said  association  until 
their  successors  shall  be  elected  or  appointed.  Further,  all 
property,  rights  and  interests  of  said  association  shall  by  virtue 
of  this  act  vest  in  and  become  the  property  of  this  corporation. 

Sec.  10.  All  interest  of  any  member  of  said  corporation  in  its 
property  shall  terminate  and  vest  in  the  corporation  upon  his 
ceasing  to  be  a  member  thereof  by  death,  resignation,  expulsion 
or  otherwise. 

Sec.  II.  The  Legislature  may  at  any  time  alter,  amend,  or  re- 
peal this  act. 

Sec.  12.   This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


THE  ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  ALUMNI 

OF   THE 

COLLEGE  OF  PHYSICIANS  AND  SURGEONS 
In  the  City  of  New  York. 


CERTIFICATE  OF  INCORPORATION. 

State  of  New  York,  ) 

City  and  County  of  New  York.  [ 

tX)e^  t\)C  tinbersigtteir,  members  of  * '  The  Association  of  the 
Alumni  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  the 
City  of  New  York,"  of  which  Cornelius  R.  Agnew  is  Presi- 
dent; Robert  A.  Barry,  Vice-President;  Frederick  A.  Burrall, 
Secretary;  George  Bayles,  Assistant  Secretary;  and  Timothy 
M.  Cheesman,  Treasurer,  and  all  other  members  of  said  Asso- 
ciation and  Alumni  of  said  College,  who  may  now  be  or  here- 
after become  associated  with  us,  do  by  these  presents,  pursuant 
to  and  in  compliance  with  the  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  passed  on  the  twelfth  day  of  April,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty-eight,  entitled  ''An  Act  for 
the  Incorporation  of  Benevolent,  Charitable,  Scientific  and  Mis- 
sionary Societies,"  and  the  several  acts  of  the  Legislature 
amendatory  thereof,  associate  ourselves  together  and  form  a 
body  politic  and  corporate,  and  do  hereby  certify : 

First.  That  the  corporate  name  of  said  Association  is: 
"The  Association  of  the  Alumni  of  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  the  City  of  New  York." 

Second.  That  the  objects  for  which  the  said  Corporation  is 
formed  are:  the  collection  of  funds  by  contribution  and  sub- 
scription, and  the  holding,  investment  and  application  of  the 
same  for  the  establishment  and  endowment  of  professorships 
and  fellowships,  the  creation  of  prize  funds,  the  establishment 
and  equipment  of  laboratories,  the  erection  and  equipment  of 
suitable  buildings  for  the  same,  or  the  alteration  and  repair  of 
buildings  already  erected,  and  for  the  purpose  of  buying,  hold- 
ing, and  hiring,   or  leasing  property  for  any  and  such  other 

91 


92  ALUMNI  CHARTERS. 

purposes  of  medical  and  scientific  investigation  and  instruction, 
in  connection  and  co-operation  with  the  Trustees  of  the  "Col- 
lege OF  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  the  City  of  New 
York,"  as  the  said  '*  Association  of  the  Alumni"  of  said 
College,  in  pursuance  of  its  Constitution  and  By-Laws,  may 
direct. 

Third.  That  the  number  of  Trustees  of  said  Corporation 
shall  be  five,  whose  names  are  as  follows:  Gurdon  Buck,  M.D.  ; 
D.  Tilden  Brown,  M.D. ;  Robert  A.  Barry,  M.D.  ;  Henry  C. 
Eno,  M.D.  ;  Thomas  E.  Satterthwaite,  M.D.  ;  and  who  shall 
manage  the  concerns  of  the  Corporation  for  the  first  year. 
(Signed)      Gurdon  Buck,  M.D. 

D.  Tilden  Brown,  M.D. 

Robert  A.  Barry,  M.D. 

Henry  C.   Eno,  M.D. 

Thomas  E.  Satterthwaite,  M.D. 


State  of  New  York,  , 

'  ^  ss : 


City  and  County  of  New  York,  [ 

On  this  5th  day  of  May,  A.D.  1873,  before  me  personally  ap- 
peared Gurdon  Buck,  M.D.,  D.  Tilden  Brown,  M.  D.,  Robert 
A.  Barry,  M.D.,  Henry  C.  Eno,  M.D.,  and  Thomas  E.  Satter- 
thwaite, M.D.,  to  me  known  to  be  the  individuals  described  in 
the  foregoing  certificate,  and  they  severally  before  me  signed  the 
said  certificate  and  acknowledged  that  they  signed  the  certificate 
for  the  purpose  therein  mentioned. 

William  J.  Bell, 

Notary  Public^ 

N.  Y.  County. 
(Endorsed) 

I,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  in  the  First  Judicial  District,  hereby  approve  of  the 
within  certificate  and  consent  that  the  same  be  filed. 

May  12th,  1873.  E.  L.   Fancher, 

/.  S.  C. 

Filed  in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  County  of  New  York, 
on  the  1 2th  day  of  May,  and  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
State  at  Albany,  on  the  13th  day  of  May,  1873. 


THE   ASSOCIATION    OF   THE   ALUMNI 

OF   THE 

SCHOOL    OF    MINES    OF    COLUMBIA 
COLLEGE. 


CERTIFICATE    OF   INCORPORATION. 

State  of  New  York,  ) 

City  and  County  of  New  York,  f 

toe,  tl)e  unbjersignelr,  Frederick  Augustus  Schermerhorn,  John 
Krom  Rees,  Pierre  de  Peyster  Ricketts,  Frederick  Remsen  Hut- 
ton,  John  C.  Fitz  Randolph,  and  Alfred  Joseph  Moses  desiring 
to  form  a  society  or  club  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  an  act 
passed  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  N.  Y.,  May  12,  1875, 
and  entitled  "An  Act  for  the  incorporation  of  societies  or  clubs 
for  certain  lawful  purposes  "  and  of  the  several  acts  extending 
and  amending  the  same,  do  hereby  certify : 

That  the  name  or  title  by  which  such  society  shall  be  known 
in  law  is  "  The  Association  of  the  Alumni  of  the  School  of 
Mines  of  Columbia  College." 

That  the  particular  business  and  object  of  such  society  is  to 
promote  the  professional  welfare  of  its  members,  and  to 
strengthen  the  bonds  of  professional  and  social  fellowship  be- 
tween the  Alumni  of  the  School  of  Mines. 

That  the  number  of  managers  who  shall  manage  the  concerns 
of  said  society  are  twelve. 

That  the  names  of  the  managers  for  the  first  year  are:  Fred- 
erick Augustus  Schermerhorn,  John  Krom  Rees,  Pierre  de 
Peyster  Ricketts,  Frederick  Remsen  Hutton,  John  C.  Fitz 
Randolph,  Alfred  Joseph  Moses,  John  Henry  Banks,  Willard 
Parker  Butler,  Peter  Townsend  Austen,  Nathaniel  Low  Britton, 
Alfred  Lockwood  Beebe,  James  Furman  Kemp. 

That  a  majority  of  the  managers  are  citizens  of  the  State  of 
New  York. 

93 


94  ALUMNI  CHARTERS. 

That  the  principal  office  of  such  society  shall  be  situated  in 
the  City,  County  and  State  of  New  York. 

In  witness  whereof  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  this 
twentieth  day  of  May  1886 

F.   Aug  Schermerhorn 
John  Krom  Rees 
Pierre  de  Peyster  Ricketts 
Frederick  Remsen  Hutton 
John  C.   F.  Randolph 
Alfred  Joseph  Moses 

State  of  New  York,  )       

City  and  County  of  New  York.  \  ^^ ' 

On  the  twentieth  day  of  May  1886  before  me  personally  came 
John  Krom  Rees,  Pierre  de  Peyster  Ricketts,  Alfred  Joseph 
Moses  and  Frederick  Remsen  Hutton ;  on  the  24th  day  of  May 
1886  before  me  personally  came  John  C.  F.  Randolph  and  on 
the  25th  day  of  May  1886  before  me  personally  came  Frederick 
Augustus  Schermerhorn,  all  of  whom  are  to  me  known  and 
known  to  me  to  be  the  individuals  described  in  and  who  exe- 
cuted the  foregoing  certificate,  and  they  severally  before  me 
signed  the  said  certificate  and  acknowledged  that  they  executed 
the  same. 

Witness  my  hand  and  official  seal  this  25th  day  of  May,  1886. 
[l.s.]  Edwin  T.   Rice,  Jr. 

Notary  Public  {S4) 

N.  Y.  Co. 

I,  Charles  Donohue,  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
State  of  New  York  in  and  for  the  First  Judicial  District,  in 
which  district  the  principal  office  of  the  Association  of  the 
Alumni  of  the  School  of  Mines  of  Columbia  College  shall  be 
located,  do  hereby  approve  of  the  foregoing  Certificate  of  Incor- 
poration, and  consent  that  the  same  be  filed. 

Dated  New  York  May  28,  1886. 

C.   Donohue. 

Filed  and  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  County  Clerk  June  8, 
1886. 


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